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... officers more tyranni- cal than themselves . In times of imminent danger , when the colony applied to them for assistance , they were either unable or unwilling to bear the expense of its protection . When the Assembly , to strengthen ...
... officers more tyranni- cal than themselves . In times of imminent danger , when the colony applied to them for assistance , they were either unable or unwilling to bear the expense of its protection . When the Assembly , to strengthen ...
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... officers and men of mark in these encounters with the savages we find the immortal names of Laurens , Moultrie , Marion , Middleton , Huger , and Pickens . An English officer , Colonel James Grant , was in command , and he was unsparing ...
... officers and men of mark in these encounters with the savages we find the immortal names of Laurens , Moultrie , Marion , Middleton , Huger , and Pickens . An English officer , Colonel James Grant , was in command , and he was unsparing ...
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... officers in the colonies were directed to apply to the courts for search warrants , called writs of assistance , to authorize them to enter any private house and search for smuggled goods . This searching aroused in the colonists the ...
... officers in the colonies were directed to apply to the courts for search warrants , called writs of assistance , to authorize them to enter any private house and search for smuggled goods . This searching aroused in the colonists the ...
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... officers , and it came LORD RAWDON . at a time when the need of encouragement to the col- onies was greatest , when ... officer . So it has justly been called " Carolina Day , " or " Palmetto Day , " and it is certainly one of the great ...
... officers , and it came LORD RAWDON . at a time when the need of encouragement to the col- onies was greatest , when ... officer . So it has justly been called " Carolina Day , " or " Palmetto Day , " and it is certainly one of the great ...
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... officers resisted the vastly superior ene- my by every means in their power , revealing the greatest fertility of invention and inexhaustible resourcefulness , and harassed and thwarted the British under Cornwallis and the most daring ...
... officers resisted the vastly superior ene- my by every means in their power , revealing the greatest fertility of invention and inexhaustible resourcefulness , and harassed and thwarted the British under Cornwallis and the most daring ...
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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.