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... Yankees , " they said , " are acting like pirates . " Two weeks ago a party of them landed at Winniaw bay , and took off 65 of Mr. Morant's negroes at the point of the bayonet . On the Wakamaw river they took 240 barrels of rice , and ...
... Yankees , " they said , " are acting like pirates . " Two weeks ago a party of them landed at Winniaw bay , and took off 65 of Mr. Morant's negroes at the point of the bayonet . On the Wakamaw river they took 240 barrels of rice , and ...
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... Yankee gunboats , when they ran the flat up a creek till they were clear away , and then continued their course . They declared they would have swamped the flat and its cargo , if the Yankees had discovered it , and would themselves ...
... Yankee gunboats , when they ran the flat up a creek till they were clear away , and then continued their course . They declared they would have swamped the flat and its cargo , if the Yankees had discovered it , and would themselves ...
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... Yankee general . Not a breath of complaint came from her . Their property is fifty acres , of which twenty are cultivated by her- self and eldest boy at home , fourteen years of age . The people seem to be very free in their religion ...
... Yankee general . Not a breath of complaint came from her . Their property is fifty acres , of which twenty are cultivated by her- self and eldest boy at home , fourteen years of age . The people seem to be very free in their religion ...
Page 93
... Yankee , and put it in his breast - pocket , and in the next battle a ball hit the Bible , but did not penetrate to his body . All the re- ports of the complete victory of the South over the North , at Richmond , were now confirmed ...
... Yankee , and put it in his breast - pocket , and in the next battle a ball hit the Bible , but did not penetrate to his body . All the re- ports of the complete victory of the South over the North , at Richmond , were now confirmed ...
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... It was stated in the Richmond papers that a lady who was insulted by a Yankee officer in the streets of New Orleans , shot him with a revolver . Three or four officers were together , and one of them 94 An Errand to the South.
... It was stated in the Richmond papers that a lady who was insulted by a Yankee officer in the streets of New Orleans , shot him with a revolver . Three or four officers were together , and one of them 94 An Errand to the South.
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Page 20 - We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Page 81 - Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall, by word, gesture, or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation.
Page 196 - When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion : we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen : the Lord hath done great things for them.
Page 40 - But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing...
Page 218 - Hark to an exiled son's appeal, Maryland ! My Mother State, to thee I kneel, Maryland ! For life and death, for woe and weal, Thy peerless chivalry reveal, And gird thy beauteous limbs with steel, Maryland, my Maryland! Thou wilt not cower in the dust, Maryland ! Thy beaming sword shall never rust, Maryland ! Remember Carroll's sacred trust, Remember Howard's warlike thrust, And all thy slumberers with the just, Maryland, my Maryland!
Page 161 - That the provisions of an act entitled "an act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Page 43 - ... accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Page 219 - Maryland ! But lo! there surges forth a shriek, From hill to hill, from creek to creek, Potomac calls to Chesapeake, Maryland, my Maryland! . Thou wilt not yield the Vandal toll, Maryland!