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... resistance by the colonists are stated in such manner as to remind one of the Declaration of Independence , eighty - seven years later . The case has been thus summed up by the historian Hewat : Revolt Against the King . " When the ...
... resistance by the colonists are stated in such manner as to remind one of the Declaration of Independence , eighty - seven years later . The case has been thus summed up by the historian Hewat : Revolt Against the King . " When the ...
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... 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 this old city of a power of resistance unsurpassed in the annals SCHOOL HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA 23.
... 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 this old city of a power of resistance unsurpassed in the annals SCHOOL HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA 23.
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John Julius Dargan. city of a power of resistance unsurpassed in the annals of war , reaching its climax in the repeated and futile attempts of the powerful Federal fleet to enter the har- bor during the War Between the Sections ...
John Julius Dargan. city of a power of resistance unsurpassed in the annals of war , reaching its climax in the repeated and futile attempts of the powerful Federal fleet to enter the har- bor during the War Between the Sections ...
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... resistance was being made to royal aggressions and arrogance under the leadership of such men as the elder Pitt ( Lord Chatham ) , Burke , Fox , Camden , Con- way , and others of high ability and character , let us see how these con ...
... resistance was being made to royal aggressions and arrogance under the leadership of such men as the elder Pitt ( Lord Chatham ) , Burke , Fox , Camden , Con- way , and others of high ability and character , let us see how these con ...
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... resistance to England and an early and zealous advocate of American indepen- dence , being a member of the Continental Congress for many years , and President pro tempore for one year during the absence of John Hancock . So we see that ...
... resistance to England and an early and zealous advocate of American indepen- dence , being a member of the Continental Congress for many years , and President pro tempore for one year during the absence of John Hancock . So we see that ...
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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.