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:
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:
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Download or read book Speeches Made in the House of Representatives Upon the Kansas Nebraska Bill January July 1854 written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
Download or read book Speech of Hon John Bell of Tennessee on the Nebraska and Kansas Bill written by John Bell and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speech of Hon S Caruthers of Missouri on the Nebraska and Kansas Bill written by Samuel Caruthers and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Speech in Favor of Grants of Public Lands for Railroads written by Augustus Emmett Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speech on the Nebraska and Kansas Territorial Bill delivered in the House of Representatives May 9 1854 written by Samuel Hurd WALLEY and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speech on Slavery and on Emancipation in Cuba Delivered at Orangeburg South Carolina April 16 1855 written by Laurence Massillon Keitt and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Speech of Hon S A Douglas of Illinois in the United States Senate March 3 1854 on Nebraska and Kansas written by Stephen Arnold Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Final Protest for Himself and the Clergy of New England Against Slavery in Kansas and Nebraska written by Charles Sumner and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Speech on the Nebraska and Kansas Bill Delivered in the House of Representatives March 30 1854 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:
