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Book Speech of Hon  Lawrence M  Keitt  of South Carolina  on Slavery  and the Resources of the South

Download or read book Speech of Hon Lawrence M Keitt of South Carolina on Slavery and the Resources of the South written by Lawrence M. Keitt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Lawrence M. Keitt, of South Carolina, on Slavery, and the Resources of the South: Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 15, 1857 This, however, ris of easy solution upon the general fact, that in the organization of ancient society, as on our southern plantations, every slaveholder had an infirmary for the care of his 'slaves. The Roman. Master had also a domestic jail. Now, as. Emancipation never entirely sun dered the bonds between the slave and the master, and as the latter continued ta hold a right over the succession of his freedmen, erected'tinto a. Client, even so could the client upon occasion have recourse to the munificence of his master, atten uatedinto a patron, and appeal to him, with every assurance, whether in, case of sickness; or the event of impoverishment. Those, therefore, \gho might constitute the body of compulsory bw, or worn-out Operatives, in ancient society, necessarily issuing from the body of _emancipated slaves, returned to the charge of the head of the gens, or family, whose. Retainers they continued to be, and consequently did not require that sys tem of public providence, which is one of the necessities of modern times, steadily eating its dissolving way into the body of society. 'this view of\the question is not a mere inference; the sportula, or dole, which the'wealthy patron had daily distributed to his pauper clients, shows that it rests upon a fact. The existence and lawful ness of domestic prisons is sufficiently established by the fact that the right of domestic prisons wag only abolished in the Eastern Empire in the year 388, by a constitution of Theodosius and Arcadius, and by a law of Justinian in the year 529 over the Western Empire; but the prohibition even then, was limited to cities and villages, and the use of private ails continued in the late fundia, or large estates, cultivated by the praedial slaves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Speech of Hon  Lawrence M  Keitt  of South Carolina

Download or read book Speech of Hon Lawrence M Keitt of South Carolina written by Laurence Massillon Keitt and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Speech of Hon  Lawrence M  Keitt  of South Carolina  on the Origin of Slavery

Download or read book Speech of Hon Lawrence M Keitt of South Carolina on the Origin of Slavery written by Laurence Massillon Keitt and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Speech of Hon  Lawrence M  Keitt  of South Carolina  on the Acquisition of Cuba  Delivered in the House of Representatives  January 19  1859  Classic

Download or read book Speech of Hon Lawrence M Keitt of South Carolina on the Acquisition of Cuba Delivered in the House of Representatives January 19 1859 Classic written by Lawrence Massillon Keitt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Lawrence M. Keitt, of South Carolina, on the Acquisition of Cuba: Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 19, 1859 Mr. Everett, in a confidential dispatch to the Secretary of State, in 1827, said he had informed the Spanish Minister of State, that it was with the United States a settled principle that the island (cuba) must in no event pass into the possession or under the protection of any European Power other than Spain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Speech of Lawrence M  Keitt  of South Carolina  Resigning His Seat

Download or read book Speech of Lawrence M Keitt of South Carolina Resigning His Seat written by Lawrence Massillon Keitt and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Speech of Hon  Lawrence M  Keitt  of South Carolina  on the Acquisition of Cuba

Download or read book Speech of Hon Lawrence M Keitt of South Carolina on the Acquisition of Cuba written by Lawrence Massillon Keitt and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Admission of Kansas

Download or read book Admission of Kansas written by Henry Myer Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Speech of Hon  Lawrence Keitt  of South Carolina

Download or read book Speech of Hon Lawrence Keitt of South Carolina written by Laurence Massillon Keitt and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Politics of the Country

Download or read book Politics of the Country written by Laurence Massillon Keitt and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Politics

Download or read book American Politics written by Laurence Massillon Keitt and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Speech of Hon  L M  Keitt  of S  Carolina  on the Nebraska and Kansas Bill

Download or read book Speech of Hon L M Keitt of S Carolina on the Nebraska and Kansas Bill written by Lawrence Massillon Keitt and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Speech of Hon  Ellison S  Keitt  of South Carolina

Download or read book Speech of Hon Ellison S Keitt of South Carolina written by Ellison Summerfield Keitt and published by . This book was released on 1884* with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tonnage Duties

Download or read book Tonnage Duties written by Lawrence Massillon Keitt and published by . This book was released on 1854* with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book South Carolina Fire Eater

Download or read book South Carolina Fire Eater written by Holt Merchant and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length biography of the controversial congressman, secessionist, and Confederate colonel South Carolina Fire-Eater is the first book-length biography of Laurence Massillon Keitt, one of South Carolina's most notorious advocates of secession and apologists for African American slavery. A politician who wanted to be a statesman, a Hotspur who wanted to be a distinguished military leader, Keitt was a U. S. congressman in the 1850s, signed the Ordinance of Secession, and represented his rebellious state in the Confederate Congress in 1861. Through this thoroughly researched volume, Holt Merchant offers a comprehensive history of an important South Carolina figure. As a congressman, Keitt was responsible for no legislation of any significance, but he was in the midst of every southern crusade to assert its "rights": to make Kansas a slave state, to annex Cuba, and to enact a territorial slave code. In a generation of politicians famous for fiery rhetoric, Keitt was among the most provocative southerners. His speeches in Congress and on the stump vituperated "Black Republicans" and were filled with references to medieval knight errantry, "lance couched, helmet on, visor down," and threats to "split the Federal temple from turret to foundation stone." His conception of personal honor and his hot temper frequently landed him in trouble in and out of public view. He acted as "fender off" in May 1855 when his fellow representative Preston Brooks caned Charles Sumner on the Senate floor. In 1858 he instigated a brawl on the floor of the House of Representatives that involved some three dozen congressmen. Amid the chaos of his personal brand of politics, Keitt found time to woo and wed a beautiful, intelligent, and politically astute plantation belle who after his death restored the family fortune and worked to embellish her late husband's place in history. After Abraham Lincoln was elected president, Keitt and the rest of the South Carolina delegation resigned their seats in Congress. He then negotiated unsuccessfully the surrender of Fort Sumter with lame-duck president James Buchanan, played a major role in the December 1860 Secession Convention that led his state out of the Union, and a lesser role in the convention that formed the Confederacy. Bored with his position as a member of the Confederate Congress, Keitt resigned his seat and raised the 20th South Carolina Infantry. Keitt spent most of the war defending Charleston Harbor, sometime commanding Battery Wagner, the site of the July 18, 1863, assault by the 54th Massachusetts Regiment of African American troops, made famous by the movie Glory. Keitt took command the day after that battle and was the last man out of the battery when his troops abandoned it in September 1863. In May 1864, his regiment joined the Army of Northern Virginia and Keitt took command of Kershaw's Brigade. Inexperienced in leading troops on the battlefield he launched a head-long attack on entrenched Federal cavalry in the June 1, 1864, Battle of Cold Harbor. Keitt was mortally wounded advancing in the vanguard of his brigade. With that last act of bravado, Keitt distinguished himself. He was among the few fire-eater politicians to serve in the military and was likely the only one to perish in combat defending the Confederacy.

Book The Counterrevolution of Slavery

Download or read book The Counterrevolution of Slavery written by Manisha Sinha and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha offers a provocative new look at the roots of southern separatism and the causes of the Civil War. Challenging works that portray secession as a fight for white liberty, she argues instead that it was a conservative, antidemocratic movement to protect and perpetuate racial slavery. Sinha discusses some of the major sectional crises of the antebellum era--including nullification, the conflict over the expansion of slavery into western territories, and secession--and offers an important reevaluation of the movement to reopen the African slave trade in the 1850s. In the process she reveals the central role played by South Carolina planter politicians in developing proslavery ideology and the use of states' rights and constitutional theory for the defense of slavery. Sinha's work underscores the necessity of integrating the history of slavery with the traditional narrative of southern politics. Only by taking into account the political importance of slavery, she insists, can we arrive at a complete understanding of southern politics and the enormity of the issues confronting both northerners and southerners on the eve of the Civil War.