South Carolina fire-eater : the life of Lawrence Massillon Keitt, 1824-1864 / Holt Merchant.
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TextPublisher: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- 9781611173505
- 1611173507
- 1306827477
- 9781306827478
- Keitt, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Massillon), 1824-1864
- United States. Congress. House -- Biography
- Keitt, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Massillon), 1824-1864
- Keitt, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Massillon), 1824-1864
- United States. Congress. House
- 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
- Parlementaires -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1849-1861
- Sécession -- Caroline du Sud
- Généraux -- États confédérés d'Amérique -- Biographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch
- Generals
- Legislators
- Politics and government
- Secession
- South Carolina
- South Carolina -- Orangeburg County
- United States
- United States -- Confederate States of America
- American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)
- 1849-1865
- 328.73/092 23
- E415.9.K27 M47 2014eb
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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."
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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 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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