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... southern . To discover this was his fixed purpose . He touched land about the thirty - fourth degree of north latitude , that is , on the coast of Carolina , and his description of the country is strikingly accurate . He says : " The ...
... southern . To discover this was his fixed purpose . He touched land about the thirty - fourth degree of north latitude , that is , on the coast of Carolina , and his description of the country is strikingly accurate . He says : " The ...
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... southern shire , Cape beyond cape , in endless range , those twinkling points of fire ! " Thus failed the first attempt to take the city of Charles Town by means of a naval force , and thus began the display on the part of the people of ...
... southern shire , Cape beyond cape , in endless range , those twinkling points of fire ! " Thus failed the first attempt to take the city of Charles Town by means of a naval force , and thus began the display on the part of the people of ...
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... Southern view . It puts the issues of the war where they should be put and kept , as it clears away completely the thought that slavery was the chief cause of the conflict in arms in the sixties . Slavery Not Cause of War . The truth is ...
... Southern view . It puts the issues of the war where they should be put and kept , as it clears away completely the thought that slavery was the chief cause of the conflict in arms in the sixties . Slavery Not Cause of War . The truth is ...
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... Southern senti- ment in the Northern States , and the impression is dis- tinctly made that thereby the South had acted in a man- ner highly discreditable , not to say shameful , to its manhood and its sense of propriety , and had shown ...
... Southern senti- ment in the Northern States , and the impression is dis- tinctly made that thereby the South had acted in a man- ner highly discreditable , not to say shameful , to its manhood and its sense of propriety , and had shown ...
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... Southern point of view . It is said that this act of Brooks's threw the whole North into transports of rage , and that the torrent of indignation swept along such men as Emer- son , Everett , Longfellow , Bryant , and Curtis , and no ...
... Southern point of view . It is said that this act of Brooks's threw the whole North into transports of rage , and that the torrent of indignation swept along such men as Emer- son , Everett , Longfellow , Bryant , and Curtis , and no ...
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Page 23 - For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire , Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.
Page 238 - State will thenceforth hold themselves absolved from all further obligation to maintain or preserve their political connection with the people of the other States, and will forthwith proceed to organize a separate government, and do all other acts and things which sovereign and independent States may of right do...
Page 236 - States, no appeal shall be allowed to the supreme court of the United States, nor shall any copy of the record be permitted or allowed for that purpose, and that any person attempting to take such appeal shall be punished as for a contempt of court...
Page 237 - States, and the people of the co-States, that we are determined to maintain this our ordinance and declaration, at every hazard, do further declare that we will not submit to the application of force, on the part of the federal government, to reduce this State to obedience...
Page 255 - AND OTHER STATES UNITED WITH HER UNDER THE COMPACT ENTITLED "THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Page 2 - The whole shore is covered with fine sand, about fifteen feet thick, rising in the form of little hills about fifty paces broad. Ascending farther, we found several arms of the sea which make in through inlets, washing the shores on both sides as the coast runs.
Page 235 - Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the several acts and parts of acts of the Congress of the United States, purporting to be laws for the imposing of duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities...
Page 255 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Page 235 - States, and more especially an act entitled "an act in alteration of the several acts imposing duties on imports...
Page 113 - But the Senator touches nothing which he does not disfigure — with error, sometimes of principle, sometimes of fact. He shows an incapacity of accuracy, whether in stating the Constitution or in stating the law, whether in the details of statistics or the diversions of scholarship. He cannot ope his mouth, but out there flies a blunder.