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South Carolina Fire-Eater The Life of Laurence Massillion Keitt, 1824-1864 / Holt Merchant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Merchant, Holt.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Keitt, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Massillon), 1824-1864.
- United States. Congress. House--Biography.
- United States.
- Generals--Confederate States of America--Biography.
- Generals.
- Secession--South Carolina.
- Secession.
- Legislators--United States--Biography.
- Legislators.
- Orangeburg County (S.C.)--Biography.
- Orangeburg County (S.C.).
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.
- United States--Politics and government--1849-1861.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- 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".
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781611173505
- 1611173507
- OCLC:
- 910069695
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