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Page 23
... duties and , although yellow fever was raging in the city at the time , the Carolinians met the attack with such promptness and vigor that the enemy was repulsed at two points and retired . We are reminded , by the signals that then ...
... duties and , although yellow fever was raging in the city at the time , the Carolinians met the attack with such promptness and vigor that the enemy was repulsed at two points and retired . We are reminded , by the signals that then ...
Page 42
... duty to be King in fact as well as in name , and to put an end to the ministerial control of affairs . He seems to have been a somewhat conscientious young man , but extremely narrow - minded and ill - informed , and he now took it into ...
... duty to be King in fact as well as in name , and to put an end to the ministerial control of affairs . He seems to have been a somewhat conscientious young man , but extremely narrow - minded and ill - informed , and he now took it into ...
Page 81
... his great example stand Colossal , seen of every land , Till in all lands , and through all human story , The path of duty be the way to glory . " CHAPTER XIII LAFAYETTE Coming of Lafayette . - Next to SCHOOL HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA 81.
... his great example stand Colossal , seen of every land , Till in all lands , and through all human story , The path of duty be the way to glory . " CHAPTER XIII LAFAYETTE Coming of Lafayette . - Next to SCHOOL HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA 81.
Page 110
... duty on every field on which it appeared , and in the severely trying camp life on Mexican soil . It planted the Palmetto flag ahead of all others on the walls of the City of Mexico . Of the 1,200 that enlisted , only about 300 returned ...
... duty on every field on which it appeared , and in the severely trying camp life on Mexican soil . It planted the Palmetto flag ahead of all others on the walls of the City of Mexico . Of the 1,200 that enlisted , only about 300 returned ...
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... duty of the Southern slaveholders to their slaves was performed , what sinister part the institution played in the drama of history , and how it was finally excised by the sword . However unjustifiable slavery had become at the period ...
... duty of the Southern slaveholders to their slaves was performed , what sinister part the institution played in the drama of history , and how it was finally excised by the sword . However unjustifiable slavery had become at the period ...
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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.