It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending.

He died from an accidental fall on August 28 1805 in Charleston and is buried there in St. Early life
Gadsden was born in 1724 in Charleston South Carolina.

He was a delegate to the Continental Congress and a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the War of Independence. He was also the designer of the famous Gadsden flag. Christopher Gadsden (February 16 1724 – August 28 1805) a soldier and statesman from South Carolina was the principal leader of the South Carolina Patriot movement in the American Revolution.