South Carolina Bench and Bar, Volume 1State Company, 1908 - 381 pages |
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... earliest exhibition on a conspicuous stage , he manifested all his prominent characteristics , rich talent , exten- sive knowledge of law , conscientious devotion to duty , and that activity and tenderness of sensibility which promptly ...
... earliest exhibition on a conspicuous stage , he manifested all his prominent characteristics , rich talent , exten- sive knowledge of law , conscientious devotion to duty , and that activity and tenderness of sensibility which promptly ...
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... earliest recol- lection his father removed to the Mills , and there his boyhood was spent . He began to go to school when he was five years old . A young man , the son of a friend of his father's , boarded at his house and went to ...
... earliest recol- lection his father removed to the Mills , and there his boyhood was spent . He began to go to school when he was five years old . A young man , the son of a friend of his father's , boarded at his house and went to ...
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... early success at the bar he always attributed more to the favor of the people , and the encouraging helping hand extended to him by the bench and bar , than any intrinsic merits which he possessed . For he knows now that his legal ...
... early success at the bar he always attributed more to the favor of the people , and the encouraging helping hand extended to him by the bench and bar , than any intrinsic merits which he possessed . For he knows now that his legal ...
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... early education in his native city and entered the South Carolina College in 1819 , graduating in the class of 1823. The class of '23 was small , but the men who com- posed it , viz .: George Buist , Wm . F. Colcock , Ebenezer Cooper ...
... early education in his native city and entered the South Carolina College in 1819 , graduating in the class of 1823. The class of '23 was small , but the men who com- posed it , viz .: George Buist , Wm . F. Colcock , Ebenezer Cooper ...
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... early part of the war he served for a short time on the staff of General Wise in West Virginia , but he was too old to endure the hardships of campaigning . He returned to his State , and during the whole war assisted materially with ...
... early part of the war he served for a short time on the staff of General Wise in West Virginia , but he was too old to endure the hardships of campaigning . He returned to his State , and during the whole war assisted materially with ...
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Page 356 - Apprehension seems to exist, among the people of the Southern States, that by the accession of a republican administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you.
Page 114 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder...
Page 143 - But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Page 331 - The People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, on the 26th day of April, AD, 1852, declared that the frequent violations of the Constitution of the United States, by the Federal Government, and its encroachments upon the reserved rights of the States, fully justified this State in then withdrawing from the Federal Union...
Page 356 - Congress, banishing all feeling of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not prosecuted upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and all laws made in pursuance thereof and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and...
Page 224 - That, when we shall have served thee in our generation, we may be gathered unto our fathers, having the testimony of a good conscience ; in the communion of the catholic Church ; in the confidence of a certain faith ; in the comfort of a reasonable, religious, and holy hope ; in favour with thee our God, and in perfect charity with the world.
Page 143 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from.
Page 356 - States; but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States, unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Page 165 - Those who compare the age on which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in then: imagination may talk of degeneracy and decay : but no man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.
Page 224 - Our lives are albums written through With good or ill, with false or true ; And as the blessed angels turn The pages of our years, God grant they read the good with smiles, And blot the ill with tears.