An Errand to the South in the Summer of 1862R. Bentley, 1863 - 312 страници |
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... farm ; he had some thou- sands of acres of land , extensive woods , wild shooting , meadows , and arable , and a capital garden . By a subscription from ladies , 200 acres have been pre- served round the house , of which two ladies are ...
... farm ; he had some thou- sands of acres of land , extensive woods , wild shooting , meadows , and arable , and a capital garden . By a subscription from ladies , 200 acres have been pre- served round the house , of which two ladies are ...
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... farm - house , there being no hotel . At 7.30 in the morning the mail stage buggy was ready to take me to Conwayboro ' , South Caro- lina , a forty miles ' drive through a country thickly wooded , and studded here and there with farms ...
... farm - house , there being no hotel . At 7.30 in the morning the mail stage buggy was ready to take me to Conwayboro ' , South Caro- lina , a forty miles ' drive through a country thickly wooded , and studded here and there with farms ...
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... farm held by a young widow , whose husband had died in the hospital at Norfolk . She had one beautiful little fair - haired child , who was playing with a negro of its own size . This universal mingling of the two races when they are ...
... farm held by a young widow , whose husband had died in the hospital at Norfolk . She had one beautiful little fair - haired child , who was playing with a negro of its own size . This universal mingling of the two races when they are ...
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... farm . He was hard at work , shoemaking , while his wife and daughters were spinning . She showed us heaps of both woollen and cotton cloth , homespun . They used to get their " cards " for thirty - five cents a - piece ; but now ...
... farm . He was hard at work , shoemaking , while his wife and daughters were spinning . She showed us heaps of both woollen and cotton cloth , homespun . They used to get their " cards " for thirty - five cents a - piece ; but now ...
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... farm . Mrs. Anderson , the lady of the house , was there ; a fine - looking , intelligent woman , with four * This Colonel Thomas Lamar is one of that family who raised 6000 men for the army of the South . Of this family there were ...
... farm . Mrs. Anderson , the lady of the house , was there ; a fine - looking , intelligent woman , with four * This Colonel Thomas Lamar is one of that family who raised 6000 men for the army of the South . Of this family there were ...
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Страница 20 - We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Страница 81 - Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall, by word, gesture, or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation.
Страница 196 - When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion : we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen : the Lord hath done great things for them.
Страница 40 - But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing...
Страница 218 - Hark to an exiled son's appeal, Maryland ! My Mother State, to thee I kneel, Maryland ! For life and death, for woe and weal, Thy peerless chivalry reveal, And gird thy beauteous limbs with steel, Maryland, my Maryland! Thou wilt not cower in the dust, Maryland ! Thy beaming sword shall never rust, Maryland ! Remember Carroll's sacred trust, Remember Howard's warlike thrust, And all thy slumberers with the just, Maryland, my Maryland!
Страница 161 - That the provisions of an act entitled "an act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Страница 43 - ... accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Страница 219 - Maryland ! But lo! there surges forth a shriek, From hill to hill, from creek to creek, Potomac calls to Chesapeake, Maryland, my Maryland! . Thou wilt not yield the Vandal toll, Maryland!