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Excerpt from An Appeal to the State Rights Party of South Carolina: In Several Letters on the Present Condition of Public Affairs
The speech which General Hammond soon afterwards made in the Senate, did not disappoint the expectations of his State Rights friends, but on the contrary, confirmed them in the belief, that, in him, they had a leader whom they might follow with pride and confidence. But when. After a few more months spent in the atmosphere of Washington, he came home and delivered his speech at Beech island, a very different feeling en sued. The State Rights party were astounded. Something like despair was caused by so heavy a blow coming from such a quarter. The National Democrats, and the lovers, open or secret, of the Union, were delighted and triumphant. 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.
