Ramsay's History of South Carolina: From Its First Settlement in 1670 to the Year 1808, Volume 1 |
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... Congress which conducted the United States through the revolutionary war , were descendants of French protestant refugees , who had migrated to America in consequence of the revocation of the Edict of Nantz . The persons alluded to were ...
... Congress which conducted the United States through the revolutionary war , were descendants of French protestant refugees , who had migrated to America in consequence of the revocation of the Edict of Nantz . The persons alluded to were ...
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... congress , a prodigious extent of territory was ceded to the King of England . Deeds of conveyance were drawn up , and formally executed , by the head men of the Cherokees in the name of the whole nation . It contained not only much ...
... congress , a prodigious extent of territory was ceded to the King of England . Deeds of conveyance were drawn up , and formally executed , by the head men of the Cherokees in the name of the whole nation . It contained not only much ...
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... Congress ; conquests from and treaties with Indians . The present situation and limits of South Carolina are as follows . It is situated in North America ; between 32 and 35 ° 8 ' and 6 ° 10 ' west longitude , from Washington , the seat ...
... Congress ; conquests from and treaties with Indians . The present situation and limits of South Carolina are as follows . It is situated in North America ; between 32 and 35 ° 8 ' and 6 ° 10 ' west longitude , from Washington , the seat ...
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... Congress of the United Colonies in 1774 ; and his grandson , Arthur Middleton , was one of the subscribers to the famous Declaration of Indepen- dence in 1776 , by which South Carolina became a sovereign State . The proprietary ...
... Congress of the United Colonies in 1774 ; and his grandson , Arthur Middleton , was one of the subscribers to the famous Declaration of Indepen- dence in 1776 , by which South Carolina became a sovereign State . The proprietary ...
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... congress , to treat of mutual friendship and commerce . They rejoiced at a proposal which implied they were a free people , and immediately the chiefs of thirty - seven different towns set out to meet him . At this congress the Governor ...
... congress , to treat of mutual friendship and commerce . They rejoiced at a proposal which implied they were a free people , and immediately the chiefs of thirty - seven different towns set out to meet him . At this congress the Governor ...
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Page 77 - State to all mankind ; and no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinions on matters of religious belief; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of this State.
Page 208 - ... of portentous, deathlike silence which reigned throughout the house : the preacher removing his white handkerchief from his aged face, (even yet wet from the recent torrent of his tears,) and slowly stretching forth the palsied hand which holds it, begins the sentence : "Socrates died like a philosopher...
Page 208 - Socrates died like a philosopher, but Jesus Christ, like a God...
Page 207 - Devotion alone should have stopped me, to join in the duties of the congregation ; but I must confess, that curiosity to hear the preacher of such a wilderness was not the least of my motives.
Page 69 - It shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward; nor shall any one (except he be a near kinsman, not farther off than cousin-german to the party concerned) be permitted to plead another man's cause, till, before the judge in open court, he hath taken an oath, that he doth not plead for money or reward...
Page 272 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Page 162 - Majesty be pleased to direct some mode by which the united applications of your faithful colonists to the throne, in pursuance of their common councils, may be improved into a happy and permanent reconciliation; and that, in the mean time...
Page 129 - America, with full power and authority to concert, agree to, and effectually prosecute such legal measures, as in the opinion of the said deputies, and of the deputies so to be assembled, shall be most likely to obtain a repeal of the said acts, and a redress of those grievances...
Page 208 - It was some time before the tumult had subsided so far as to permit him to proceed. Indeed, judging by the usual but fallacious standard of my own weakness, I began to be very uneasy for the situation of the preacher. For I could not conceive how he would be able to let his audience down from the height to which he had wound them, without impairing the solemnity and dignity of his subject, or perhaps shocking them by the abruptness of the fall.
Page 151 - British rulers to injure them. Indeed, the ruinous and deadly injuries received on our side, and the jealousies entertained, and which, in the nature of things, must daily increase against us, on the other demonstrate to a mind in the least given to reflection upon the rise and fall of empires, that true reconcilement never can exist between Great Britain and America, the latter being in subjection to the former.