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Abbeville afterwards appointed by Proprietors Ashley AUTOGRAPH Battery battle became began body brave British called Camden cannon captured Carolinians cavalry CHAPTER Charles Pinckney Charles Town Charleston Cherokees Cheves Colonel colonists colony Columbia command Confederate Congress County dashed District Drayton drove enemy England field fight fire flag force Fort Sumter fought Gadsden gallant gave George McDuffie Georgia Gregg guns harbor Hayne Henry hill horse horsemen Huguenots hundred Indians James January John Rutledge Johnson Kershaw king land Langdon Cheves Laurens lawmakers lawyer leader logs Manassas marched Maxcy Gregg McDuffie McGowan Moultrie muskets named negro North Palmetto Parish Patrick Calhoun Pee Dee Pickens President riflemen rifles rode rushed sailed Santee Scots Senate sent settlers ships shot Simms soldiers South Carolina College stood Sullivan's Island Sumter sword Thomas Pinckney took trees troops upper country vessels Wade Hampton Washington William Bull William Henry Drayton William Moultrie
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Page 316 - ... the Constitution of the United States authorizes it to effect and accomplish, hath raised and collected unnecessary revenue for objects unauthorized by the Constitution: We, therefore, the people of the State of South Carolina in 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...
Page 287 - Sleep sweetly in your humble graves, Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause; Though yet no marble column craves The pilgrim here to pause. In seeds of laurel in the earth The blossom of your fame is blown, And somewhere, waiting for its birth, The shaft is in the stone!
Page 316 - 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acts and parts of acts of the general assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed ; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the u United States of America/
Page 199 - In the same spirit we are told that the Union must be preserved, without regard to the means. And how is it proposed to preserve the Union? By force! Does any man in his senses believe that this beautiful structure, this harmonious aggregate of States, produced by the joint consent of all, can be preserved by force? Its very introduction will be certain destruction of this Federal Union. No, no; you cannot keep the States united in their constitutional and federal bonds by force.
Page 316 - 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 187 - dashed into debate like the Mameluke cavalry upon a charge. There was a gallant air about him, that could not but win admiration. He never provided for retreat : he never imagined it. He had an invincible confidence in himself, which arose partly from constitutional temperament, partly from previous success. His was the Napoleonic warfare : to strike at once for the Capitol of the enemy, heedless of danger or loss to his own forces.
Page 78 - A confirmation of our essential and common rights as Englishmen," thus he himself reports his sentiments, " may be pleaded from charters safely enough; but any further dependence upon them may be fatal. We should stand upon the broad common ground of those natural rights that we all feel and know as men, and as descendants of Englishmen.
Page 199 - Its very introduction will be certain destruction to this Federal Union. No, no. You cannot keep the States united in their constitutional and federal bonds by force. Force may, indeed, hold the parts together, but such union would be the bond between master and slave — a union of exaction on one side and of unqualified obedience on the other.
Page 98 - Well, colonel, what do you think of it now?" "We shall beat them," said Moultrie. " The men-of-war," rejoined the captain, " will knock your fort down in half an hour." " Then," said Moultrie, " we will lie behind the ruins and prevent their men from landing.
Page 86 - God and man, in resisting force by force — do unite ourselves under every tie of religion and honor, and associate as a band in her defence against every foe — hereby solemnly engaging that, whenever our continental or provincial councils shall decree it necessary, we will go forth and be ready to sacrifice our lives and fortunes to secure her freedom and safety.