A Voice from South CarolinaWalker, Evans & Cogswell, 1879 - 231 páginas |
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... hand , when the wonderful campaign of " Hamp- ton and Home Rule , " brought about another Revolution . This rendered two additional chapters necessary , to come down to the date of the regen- eration of the State . The author now sends ...
... hand , when the wonderful campaign of " Hamp- ton and Home Rule , " brought about another Revolution . This rendered two additional chapters necessary , to come down to the date of the regen- eration of the State . The author now sends ...
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... hands of strangers ; her proud monuments of the past , all begrimed and vandalized ; her sacred treasury thrown wide open to the insatiable rapacity of thieves and robbers ; and her bright escutcheon blackened by every crime known to ...
... hands of strangers ; her proud monuments of the past , all begrimed and vandalized ; her sacred treasury thrown wide open to the insatiable rapacity of thieves and robbers ; and her bright escutcheon blackened by every crime known to ...
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... hand , afterwards darkened and blackened the whole political sky . A generation arose who had im- bibed with their mother's milk this moral prejudice , and had been incessantly taught from their earliest infancy , in the home - circle ...
... hand , afterwards darkened and blackened the whole political sky . A generation arose who had im- bibed with their mother's milk this moral prejudice , and had been incessantly taught from their earliest infancy , in the home - circle ...
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... hand , afterwards darkened and blackened the whole political sky . A generation arose who had im- bibed with their mother's milk this moral prejudice , and had been incessantly taught from their earliest infancy , in the home - circle ...
... hand , afterwards darkened and blackened the whole political sky . A generation arose who had im- bibed with their mother's milk this moral prejudice , and had been incessantly taught from their earliest infancy , in the home - circle ...
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... hands , and they are left destitute . Impoverished and ruined in fortune , they even now can be found scat- tered over the State , in circumstances of great desti- tution . Simply their living in post that fell into the Was 28 A VOICE ...
... hands , and they are left destitute . Impoverished and ruined in fortune , they even now can be found scat- tered over the State , in circumstances of great desti- tution . Simply their living in post that fell into the Was 28 A VOICE ...
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Página 95 - Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Página 145 - Th' insulting tyrant, prancing o'er the field Strow'd with Rome's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter, His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin ? PORTIUS.
Página 21 - That there was a cause, and an adequate cause, might be presumed from the character of the Convention which passed the Ordinance of Secession, and the perfect unanimity with which it was done.
Página 23 - That such an assembly should have inaugurated and completed a radical revolution in all the external relations of the State, in the face of acknowledged dangers, and at the risk of enormous sacrifices, and should have done it gravely, soberly, dispassionately, deliberately, and yet have done it without cause, transcends all the measures of probability. Whatever else may be said of it, it certainly must be admitted that this solemn act of South Carolina was well considered.
Página 22 - It was a noble body, and all their proceedings were in harmony with their high character. In the midst of intense agitation and excitement, they were calm, cool, collected, and self-possessed. They deliberated without passion, and concluded without rashness. They sat with closed doors, that the tumult of the populace might not invade the sobriety of their minds.
Página 16 - ... walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more. No more to chiefs and ladies bright The harp of Tara swells : The chord alone, that breaks at night, Its tale of ruin tells. Thus Freedom now so seldom wakes, The only throb she gives Is when some heart indignant breaks, To show that still she lives.
Página 178 - JOHN HAMPDEN, Who, with great spirit and consummate abilities, began a noble opposition to an arbitrary court, in defence of the liberties of his country ; supported them in parliament, and died for them in the field.
Página 21 - There were men in that convention utterly incapable of low and selfish schemes, who, in the calm serenity of their judgments, were as unmoved by the waves of popular passion and excitement, as the everlasting granite by the billows that roll against it. There were men there who would...
Página 22 - ... and all their proceedings were in harmony with their high character. In the midst of intense agitation and excitement, they were calm, cool, collected and self-possessed. They deliberated without passion, and concluded without rashness. They sat with closed doors, that the tumult of the populace might not invade the sobriety of their minds. 'If a stranger could have passed from the stirring scenes with which the streets of Charleston were alive, into the calm and quiet sanctuary of this venerable...