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South Carolina fire-eater : the life of Lawrence Massillon Keitt, 1824-1864 / Holt Merchant.

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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 lea...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Merchant, Holt
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Keitt, Lawrence M. > (Lawrence Massillon), > 1824-1864.
United States. > Congress. > House > Biography.
Legislators > United States > Biography.
United States > Politics and government > 1849-1861.
Secession > South Carolina.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Biography.
Generals > Confederate States of America > Biography.
Orangeburg County (S.C.) > Biography.
United States. > Congress. > House.
Generals.
Legislators.
Politics and government
Secession.
South Carolina.
South Carolina > Orangeburg County.
United States.
United States > Confederate States of America.
Biographies.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • "See that you rear a new union"
  • "Trample upon your hosannas to the union"
  • "He who dallies is a dastard"
  • "Shake the federal temple from turret to foundation stone"
  • "Like mildew and blast, like pestilence and famine"
  • "Lance couched, helmet on, visor down"
  • "Take the fetters from your heart"
  • "Style, beauty, and high training"
  • "Fidelity to the union is treason to the south"
  • "True liberty is won by the blood of the brave"
  • "Proudly the southern cross still floats to the breeze"
  • Epilogue: "I will not lose my land."

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