Journal of the House of Representatives of South Carolina. January 8, 1782-February 26, 1782Historical commission of South Carolina, 1916 - 143 σελίδες |
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according to adjournment accordingly prepared vizt accordingly read amercing Assembly Bill be read Bill entitled carried Charles Town Christopher Gadsden Clause Clerks Table Colo Committee appointed Concurrence delivered Districts Doct Edward Rutledge elected Esquires Excellency the Governor Febry following Message following words vizt follows vizt foregoing Message Gadsden Gentlemen Gibbes Honble Gent Honble the Senate Honors House have considered House Hugh Rutledge House met according House of Representatives House wou'd Hugh Rutledge Speaker Hutson inform'd the House intended to qualify John Laurens John Lewis Gervais John Rutledge Journals of yesterdays Message be prepared Message was accordingly morrow morning Motion negroes Oaths of Qualification pleased to receive Privy Council Privy Counsellor publick Qualification and Allegiance Question being put Ramsay read a second read a third Read the Journals request Resolved Richard Hutson Rutledge Speaker Ordered schedule of amendments shou'd Shubrick Speaker do sign Thomas Heyward Thousand Guineas wou'd be pleased yesterdays proceedings
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Σελίδα 31 - And be if further Enacted by the authority aforesaid. That all and every person and persons who shall...
Σελίδα 13 - Enemies, it is with you to determine, whether the forfeiture and appropriation of their Property should now take place, — If such should be your determination, tho' many of our firmest Friends have been reduced, for their inflexible Attachment to the Cause of their Country, from Opulence to inconceivable Distress, and if the Enemy's Will and power had prevailed, would have been doomed to Indigence and Beggary, Yet, it will redound to the reputation of this State, to provide a becoming support,...
Σελίδα 11 - ... may confidently rely for every necessary assistance : on the perfect harmony which subsists between France and America : on the stability which her independence has acquired, and the certainty that it is too deeply rooted ever to be shaken ; for animated as they are by national honor, and united by one common interest, it must and will be maintained.
Σελίδα 11 - States had been arrogantly committed, was speedily compelled to accept of the same mortifying terms which had been imposed on that brave but unfortunate garrison; to surrender an army of many thousand regulars, and to abandon his wretched followers, whom he had artfully seduced from their allegiance by specious promises of protection which he could never have hoped to fulfil...
Σελίδα 31 - Governor, or Commander in Chief, for the time being, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Legislative Council of the same, to be appointed in Manner herein-after mentioned.
Σελίδα 10 - But I can now congratulate you, and I do so most cordially, on the pleasing change of affairs, which, under the blessing of God, the wisdom, prudence, address, and bravery of the great and gallant General Greene, and the intrepidity of the officers and men under his command, has been happily effected...
Σελίδα 10 - A general who is justly entitled, from his many signal services to honorable and singular marks of your approbation and gratitude ; his successes have been more rapid and complete than the most sanguine could have expected ; the enemy, compelled to surrender or evacuate every post which they held in the country, frequently defeated and driven from place to place, are obliged to seek refuge under the walls of...
Σελίδα 9 - ... of those militia were too few to contend effectually with the collected strength of the enemy. Regardless, therefore, of the sacred ties of honor, destitute of the feelings of humanity, and determined to extinguish, if possible, every spark of freedom in this country, they, with the insolent pride of conquerors, gave unbounded scope to the exercise of their tyrannical disposition, infringed their public engagements, and violated the most solemn capitulations...
Σελίδα 9 - SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: Since the last meeting of a General Assembly, the good people of this State have not only felt the common calamities of war, but from the wanton and savage manner, in which it has been prosecuted, they have experienced such severities as are unpractised, and will scarcely be credited by civilized nations.
Σελίδα 10 - ... of the continent, without the means of support. Many who had surrendered as prisoners of war were killed in cold blood ; several suffered death in the most ignominious manner, and others were delivered up to savages, and put to tortures under which they expired.