The History of South Carolina: From Its First European Discovery to Its Erection Into a Republic: with a Supplementary Chronicle of Events to the Present TimeS. Babcock & Company, 1840 - 355 páginas |
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agricultural Americans arms artillery Ashley river attack battle brigade British army British commander Camden captain Carolinians cavalry charge Charles Pinckney governor Charlestown Cherokees colonel colonists colony compelled conflict Congaree convention Cornwallis defeat defence detachment Edisto enemy enemy's equally escaped Eutaw event fell fire fled fleet Florida followed force Fort Moultrie Fort Watson French garrison GEORGE MCDUFFIE governor governor Rutledge Greene horse hostility hundred Indians infantry island land Laudonniere Laurens legislature less lieutenant lord Rawdon loyalists Marion Melendez ment miles militia Moultrie North officers Orangeburg party Pickens plantation Port Royal possession president prisoners proprietors province provisions pursued received regiment resolution resolved retreat Ribault Santee savages Savannah secure settlements ships soldiers soon South Carolina Spaniards spirit succeeded success suffered Sullivan's island Sumter surrender Tarleton thousand tion took tories town troops valor vessels Virginia wounded
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Página 122 - That all supplies to the Crown being free gifts of the people, it is unreasonable and inconsistent with the principles and spirit of the British Constitution, for the people of Great Britain to grant to His Majesty the property of the colonists.
Página 121 - That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them, but with their own consent, given personally, or by their representatives.
Página 312 - 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...
Página 122 - That the only representatives of the people of these colonies are persons chosen therein by themselves, and that no taxes ever have been, or can be constitutionally imposed on them, but by their respective legislatures.
Página 122 - X. That as the profits of the trade of these colonies ultimately centre in Great Britain to pay for the manufactures which they are obliged to take from thence, they eventually contribute very largely to all supplies granted there to the crown.
Página 281 - Regardless, therefore, of the sacred ties of honor, destitute of the feelings of humanity, and determined to extinguish, if possible, every spark of freedom in this country, they, with the insolent pride of conquerors, gave unbounded scope to the exercise of their tyrannical dispositions, infringed their public engagements, and violated the most solemn capitulations.
Página 122 - An act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties, in the British colonies and plantations in America, &c. by imposing taxes on the inhabitants of these colonies, and the said act, and several other acts, by extending the jurisdiction of the courts of admiralty beyond its ancient limits, have a manifest tendency to subvert the rights and liberties of the colonists.
Página 51 - With grim satire, Charles introduced into the preamble of the charter a statement that the petitioners, "excited with a laudable and pious zeal for the propagation of the Gospel, have begged a certain country in the parts of America not yet cultivated and planted, and only inhabited by some barbarous people who have no knowledge of God.
Página 24 - ... to recite, that my pen is loth to write it. After so long time and tedious travels, God of his goodness using his accustomed favor, changed their sorrow into joy, and showed unto them the sight of land. Whereof they were so exceeding glad, that the pleasure caused them to remain a long time as men without sense: whereby they let the pinnace float this and that way without holding any right way or course.
Página 281 - Marion, whose enterprising spirit and unremitted perseverance under many difficulties are deserving of great applause, harassed and often defeated large parties ; but the numbers of those militia were too few to contend effectually with the collected strength of the enemy. Regardless, therefore, of the sacred ties of honor, destitute of the feelings of humanity, and determined to extinguish, if possible, every spark of freedom in this country...