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... fields the women were ploughing , for their hus- bands had all gone to the army : other women were anxiously waiting for letters at the various post- offices . I had been told in the North that it was only the rich planters who raised a ...
... fields the women were ploughing , for their hus- bands had all gone to the army : other women were anxiously waiting for letters at the various post- offices . I had been told in the North that it was only the rich planters who raised a ...
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... fields lying between some of the houses . The court - house and gaol are of brick , the former having the usual façade of Doric pillars . Evergreen oaks cast their welcome shade in all directions ; fig - trees and vines cool the houses ...
... fields lying between some of the houses . The court - house and gaol are of brick , the former having the usual façade of Doric pillars . Evergreen oaks cast their welcome shade in all directions ; fig - trees and vines cool the houses ...
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... field - officers from them- selves , the colonel appointing his adjutant . This gentleman had procured Enfield rifles from England for 120 men of his regiment , the 10th South Caro- lina , before the Queen's proclamation came out , and ...
... field - officers from them- selves , the colonel appointing his adjutant . This gentleman had procured Enfield rifles from England for 120 men of his regiment , the 10th South Caro- lina , before the Queen's proclamation came out , and ...
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... fields are white to the harvest ; there is a noble opening for the ministry of the Church . Come , not in the spirit of opposition but of love - on the principle that those who are not against Christ are for him . If the old Church be ...
... fields are white to the harvest ; there is a noble opening for the ministry of the Church . Come , not in the spirit of opposition but of love - on the principle that those who are not against Christ are for him . If the old Church be ...
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... fields on the south bank of the Wakamah : these fields are reclaimed from swamps : a high embankment is made along the river , through which at intervals are placed immense sluices , which are the means of keeping the fields flooded ...
... fields on the south bank of the Wakamah : these fields are reclaimed from swamps : a high embankment is made along the river , through which at intervals are placed immense sluices , which are the means of keeping the fields flooded ...
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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!