An Errand to the South in the Summer of 1862R. Bentley, 1863 - 312 страници |
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... Plantation .. CHAPTER V. Off to Columbia and the Refuge Plantation CHAPTER VI . Back at the Refuge , and then to the Wakamah and the Blockaders .. CHAPTER VII . Back to Conwayboro ' .. 78 86 109 138 CHAPTER VIII . First Visit to ...
... Plantation .. CHAPTER V. Off to Columbia and the Refuge Plantation CHAPTER VI . Back at the Refuge , and then to the Wakamah and the Blockaders .. CHAPTER VII . Back to Conwayboro ' .. 78 86 109 138 CHAPTER VIII . First Visit to ...
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... Plantation .. CHAPTER V. Off to Columbia and the Refuge Plantation CHAPTER VI . Back at the Refuge , and then to the Wakamah and the Blockaders .. CHAPTER VII . Back to Conwayboro ' CHAPTER VIII . First Visit to Richmond - President ...
... Plantation .. CHAPTER V. Off to Columbia and the Refuge Plantation CHAPTER VI . Back at the Refuge , and then to the Wakamah and the Blockaders .. CHAPTER VII . Back to Conwayboro ' CHAPTER VIII . First Visit to Richmond - President ...
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... plantations , and wild myrtle , which is the carpet of the woods , both beat oak bark for tanning leather ; ground nuts and cotton seed produce excellent oil for lubricating machinery ; fibres are found for making paper , -that of the ...
... plantations , and wild myrtle , which is the carpet of the woods , both beat oak bark for tanning leather ; ground nuts and cotton seed produce excellent oil for lubricating machinery ; fibres are found for making paper , -that of the ...
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... plantation too was within a drive , about forty - two miles down the river , where 350 negroes used to be employed ; but a fresh estate of 800 acres was just bought about 300 miles inland , to which 150 were removed by rail . Never did ...
... plantation too was within a drive , about forty - two miles down the river , where 350 negroes used to be employed ; but a fresh estate of 800 acres was just bought about 300 miles inland , to which 150 were removed by rail . Never did ...
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... plantations have easy work : begin at sunrise , breakfast at nine , dinner at three ; by which time the task - work is ... plantation , she is called a " broad wife ; " the children stay with her . It is the custom for masters to arrange ...
... plantations have easy work : begin at sunrise , breakfast at nine , dinner at three ; by which time the task - work is ... plantation , she is called a " broad wife ; " the children stay with her . It is the custom for masters to arrange ...
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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!