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" Mr. Drummond! You are very welcome. I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond, you shall be hanged in half an hour... "
Rise of the United Empire Loyalists: A Sketch of American History - Page 18
by Frederic Gregory Forsyth - 1906 - 120 pages
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The Great Dismal: A Carolinian's Swamp Memoir

History - 1990 - 212 pages
...bowed contemptuously low to him, and gave away his great pleasure and hatred when he said: "Mister Drummond, you are very welcome. I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mister Drummond, you shall be hanged in half an hour." "What your honor pleases," Drummond replied....
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The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America

Ronald H. Bayor - History - 2004 - 1032 pages
...imediately to shore and complimented him with the ironicall sarcasm of a low bend, saying "Mr. Drumond! ashington distinctly asks that black people give Drumond you shall be hang'd in half an hour; who answered what yo'r hon'r pleases, and as soon as a...
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Harper's Magazine, Volume 102

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - American literature - 1901 - 1022 pages
...Chickahominy. lie was brought before Berkeley at Bacon's house. "Mr. Drummond," cried the Governor, bowing low, "you are very welcome; I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond, you shall be hanged in half an hour." "What your Honor pleases," replied the stout-hearted Scotsman. He was hanged...
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A Short History of the United States, 1492-1920

John Spencer Bassett - United States - 1921 - 1000 pages
...Albemarle, probably through Berkeley's selection, the governor said in greeting him: "Mr. Drummond, you are welcome. I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond, you shall be hanged in half an hour." To which the prisoner replied: "As your honor pleases," and he was led...
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The North American Review, Volume 67

North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1848 - 538 pages
...went on shore, and saluted him with a courtly bow, saying, ' Mr. Drummond, you are very unwelcome ; I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond, you shall be hanged in half an hour.' Drummond replied, ' What your Honor pleases.' A court-martial was immediately...
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The North American Review, Volume 67

North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1848 - 542 pages
...went on shore, and saluted him with a courtly bow, saying, ' Mr. Drummond, you are very unwelcome ; I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond, you shall be hanged in half an hour.' Drummond replied, ' What your Honor pleases.' A court-martial was immediately...
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History of Virginia for the Use of Schools

Mary Tucker Magill - Virginia - 1873 - 280 pages
...He bent BERKELEY WELCOMING DRUMMOND. low before him, with affected courtesy, as he said mockingly, " Mr. Drummond, you are very welcome. I am more glad to see you than any other man in Virginia ; 'fore God I you shall hang in half an hour ; " and h« was hung as soon as...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 17

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - American literature - 1858 - 888 pages
...said the exulting Governor Berkeley, with a low bow, on meeting William Drummond as his prisoner ; ' I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia ; you shall be hanged in half an hour !' " " A PRETTY little fellow was reciting in Brown'* Catechism;...
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Makers of North Carolina History

Robert Digges Wimberly Connor - North Carolina - 1911 - 336 pages
...the Governor. "Mr. Drummond, you are very welcome," exclaimed the angry Governor, "I am more pleased to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond, you shall be hanged in half an hour." And sure enough the old tyrant had him hanged! The New Government and the...
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THE OLD SOUTH AND THE NEW

CHARLES MORRIS - 1907 - 752 pages
...fell into the hands of the revengeful governor. "You are very welcome, Mr. Drummond," said Berkeley, "I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. You shall be hanged in half an hour." And he was. "God has been inexpressibly merciful to this poor...
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