TY  - BOOK
AU  - Merchant,Holt
TI  - South Carolina fire-eater: the life of Lawrence Massillon Keitt, 1824-1864 
SN  - 9781611173505
AV  - E415.9.K27 M47 2014eb
U1  - 328.73/092 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Columbia, South Carolina
PB  - University of South Carolina Press
KW  - Keitt, Lawrence M.
KW  - United States
KW  - Congress
KW  - House
KW  - Biography
KW  - fast
KW  - Legislators
KW  - Secession
KW  - South Carolina
KW  - Generals
KW  - Confederate States of America
KW  - Parlementaires
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Sécession
KW  - Caroline du Sud
KW  - Généraux
KW  - États confédérés d'Amérique
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Political
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Government
KW  - Legislative Branch
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1849-1861
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Orangeburg County (S.C.)
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - Orangeburg County
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; "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."
N2  - 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, Kei
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