State of South Carolina : Governor Hayne’s message

Governor Hayne speaks of the superiority of individual state sovereignty and states’ rights over mandates by the federal government. Hayne’s speech comes after President Andrew Jackson’s Nullification Proclamation that disputed a state’s right to nullify a federal law, in response to South Carolina’s ordinances declaring the tariff acts of 1828 and 1832 unconstitutional.

Annual message of his excellency Franklin J. Moses, Jr., Governor of South Carolina, to the General Assembly at the regular session of 1872-73

Governor Moses calls on South Carolinians to endeavor to become a respected member of the United States following the U.S. Civil War. His message addresses the status of the national debt, South Carolina public education, the South Carolina Orphan Asylum, the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, the state penitentiary, the state’s quarantine of small pox, the revenue-generating phosphate deposits in the state, immigration to the state, the state’s flagship university, current state legislation, and the state militia.

Memorial with the resolutions adopted at the anti-tariff meeting held at Abbeville Court-House, South Carolina, on Monday, the 3d of September, 1827

This document contains the resolutions adopted at the anti-tariff meeting held at the Abbeville courthouse following taxes imposed by the federal government, which members of the state believed to be unconstitutional.

Observations on some birds procured near Charleston, South Carolina

This document contains notes on eight species of birds observed by Arthur T. Wayne in Charleston, South Carolina including the Horned Grebe, the Yellow-crowned Night Heron, Bachman’s Warbler, the Rocky Mountain Orange-crowned Warbler, the Cape May Warbler, the Black-poll Warbler, the Red-breasted Nuthatch, and the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.

Notes on seven birds taken near Charleston, South Carolina

This document contains notes on seven species of birds observed by Arthur T. Wayne in Charleston, South Carolina including the Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, the Purple Martin, the Black-throated Blue Warbler, Cairn’s Warbler, Grinnell’s Water-Thrush, the Kentucky Warbler, and the Mockingbird.

Some additions and other records new to the ornithology of South Carolina

This document contains notes on several species of birds observed by Arthur T. Wayne in South Carolina including the Sooty Shearwater, the Harlequin Duck, the Snow Goose, the Blue Goose, the Egret, the Yellow-crowned Night Heron, the Hudsonian Curlew, the Turnstone, the Pigeon Hawk, the Crested Flycatcher, the Bronzed Grackle, the Carolina Grackle, the Ipswich Sparrow, Leconte’s Sparrow, the Mountain Solitary Vireo, Bachman’s Warbler, the Magnolia Warbler, the Black-throated Green Warbler, and the Connecticut Warbler.

The nest and eggs of Bachman's warbler, helminthophila Bachmani (Aud.), taken near Charleston, South Carolina

This document contains information on the nest and eggs of the bird, Bachman’s Warbler.

The breeding season of the American barn owl (Strix pratincola) in South Carolina

This document contains information on the breeding season of the American Barn Owl in South Carolina.

An address delivered before the South-Carolina institute, at its second annual fair

This document contains a correspondence of Joseph H. Lumpkin, which originated from a meeting of the board of directors of the South Carolina Institute, in connection with the Annual Fair, held on Tuesday evening, November 19, 1850. It included a request for a copy of the address for publication.

An address delivered before the South-Carolina institute, at its first annual fair

This document contains an address by James H. Hammond , delivered before the South Carolina Institute, held at Military Hall It mentions the resolutions that were proposed and adopted including an acknowledgements for the very able and eloquent address, appointment of five committee members for communication and to request a copy of the address for publication with James H. Hammond.

Memorial of citizens of Chesterfield, Marlborough, and Darlington, assembled at Cheraw in South Carolina, against a further increase of duties on imported articles, February 4, 1828 : referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union

This document contains a memorial, which was written by the citizens of Chesterfield, Marlborough, and Darlington, assembled in the town of Cheraw, on July 25, the 25, 1827 in the state of South Carolina who were engaged in agriculture and commerce and presented it to oppose the tariff increase. It was presented to the Congress of the United States.

The sectionalism of the tariff bill. Speech of Hon. John L. McLaurin, of South Carolina, in the Senate of the United States

This document contains a speech by John L. McLaurin, representative of South Carolina. Sections of the speech include: sectionalism exposed, the bill might have been defeated, the south plundered of its rights, not a protectionist, fraudulent demands of New England, Hon. Randolph Tucker, Hon. W.R. Morrison, and Hon. R.Q. Mills strangers to the doctrine in 1882, a tariff for revenue against the doctrine of free raw material, don’t want Cleveland’s interpretation, contest of schedules, and my remedy.

Speech of Hon. John Lowndes McLaurin, of South Carolina, in the Senate of the United States, Monday, December 9, 1901

This document contains a speech by John L. McLaurin of South Carolina presented in the Senate of the United States. Sections of the speech include: sectionalism the cause, conditions in South Carolina, the federal administration in South Carolina, should not array class against class, freedom of thought and speech, the issues, under caucus dictation the Senate no longer a deliberative body, the beginning of the fight, matter of arraying class against class, freedom of thought and speech, and issues.

The tariff. Speech of Representative J. L. McLaurin, of South Carolina, in the House of Representatives, Tuesday, March 23, 1897

This document contains a speech of John L. McLaurin, representative of South Carolina, in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, March 23, 1897 about proposed tariffs.