 | James Parton - Presidents - 1860 - 896 pages
...execute them ; and that duty I mean, to the utmost of my power, faithfully to perform." He said more : " If the sacred soil of Carolina should be polluted by the footsteps of an invader, or be stained with the blood of her citizens, shed in her defense, I trust in Almighty God that no son of hers, native... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 pages
...execute them ; and that duty I mean, to the utmost of my power, faithfully to perform," He proceeded : " If the sacred soil of Carolina should be polluted by the footsteps of an invader, or be stained with the blood of her citizens, shed in her defense, I trust in Almighty God that no son of hers, native... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1865 - 692 pages
...to the utmost of my power, faithfully to perform." He proceeded : " If the sacred soil of Carolina_ should be polluted by the footsteps of an invader, or be stained with the blood of her citizens, shed in her defense, I trust in Almighty God that no son of hers, native... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Democracy - 1885 - 462 pages
...the utmost of my power faithfully to perform." He went even further than this, and declared that " if the sacred soil of Carolina should be polluted by the footsteps of an invader, or be stained with the blood of her citizens, shed in her defence, he trusted in Almighty God that no son of hers,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1090 pages
...to exercise an " unwarrantable jurisdiction over us." If such, fellow citizens, should be our lot; if the sacred soil of Carolina should be polluted by the footsteps of an invader, or be stained with the blood of her citizens, shed in her defence; I trust iu Almighty God that no son of hers, native... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...our own Courts, the enforcement of which may devolve upon the Executive," and "if," continued he, " the sacred soil of Carolina should be polluted by the footsteps of an invader, or be stained with the blood of her citizens, shed in her defense, I trust in Almighty God * * * even should she... | |
 | 1890 - 802 pages
...the legislature, and every judgment of our own courts, the enforcement of which may devolve upon me. If the sacred soil of Carolina should be polluted...stained by the blood of her citizens, shed in her defense, I trust in Almighty God that no son of hers, native or adopted, who has been nourished at... | |
 | James Parton - 1892 - 362 pages
...the citizens of South Carolina owe to the State of their birth or their adoption." He said more : " If the sacred soil of Carolina should be polluted by the footsteps of an invader, or be stained with the blood of her citizens, shed in her defense, I trust in Almighty God that no son of hers, native... | |
 | Edwin Erle Sparks - United States - 1901 - 438 pages
...persisted, and South Carolina passed a nullification ordinance. Governor Hayne made a vow to resist " if the sacred soil of Carolina should be polluted by the footsteps of an invader." Buttons bearing a palmetto tree appeared by thousands, and medals were struck bearing the words, "... | |
 | James Louis Petigru, James Petigru Carson - Lawyers - 1920 - 552 pages
...citizens of South Carolina owe to the State of their birth or adoption. If the sacred soil of South Carolina should be polluted by the footsteps of an invader, or be stained with the blood of her citizens, shed in her defense, I trust in Almighty God that no son of hers, native... | |
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If the sacred soil of Carolina should be polluted by the footsteps of an invader, or be stained with the blood of her citizens, shed in her defense, I trust in Almighty God that no son of hers, native or adopted, who has been nourished at her bosom, or... 
