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title: 'Our Debt to Cornelius Harnett: An Address'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'Charles Alphonso Smith'
date: 1907-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Autobiography and Biography'
- 'History (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Galatians 5'
- '1 Samuel 12'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/smith-1907-our-debt-to-cornelius-harnett-an-address
---

# Our Debt to Cornelius Harnett: An Address

Commencement address honoring Cornelius Harnett, a leading North Carolina patriot whose civic leadership, fiscal skill, and courage shaped the colony's Revolutionary resistance.

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