A Chapter In The Early History Of South Carolina Classic Reprint

Author : William Gilmore Simms
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332186009
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The History of South Carolina, from Its First European Discovery to Its Erection Into a Republic written by William Gilmore Simms and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of South Carolina, From Its First European Discovery to Its Erection Into a Republic: With a Supplementary Chronicle of Events to the Present Time The'pretensions of the present volume are exceedingly moderate. The aim of the writer, as already expressed, has been to provide a volume for the popular reader and for the use of schools - to supply the rising generation with such a history of the country as will enable them to satisfy their own curiosity and the inquiries of others. It is ulamentable to perceive the degree'of ignorance in which our people live, with' regard to those events which made their ancestors famous, and which have given them equal station and security. To say that the great majority of our young people know little or nothing of the history of the state, is to do them no injustice. This ignorance was inevitable from the unwieldy cumbrousness and heavy cost of the volumes in which our history was locked up. To steer clear of the great errors of my predecessors, my first aim was condensation. My work, therefore, is little more than an abridgement. I have sought rather to be useful than original, and I have never suffered myself to be excursive. I have seldom ventured upon conjectures or speculations of my own, and in no instance where the conjecture would have called for, or merited, discussion. In the course of the narrative I have not scrupled to make occasional use of the very language of my authority, wherever it seemed particularly compre hensive or felicitous. To place the facts in a simple form - in a just order - to give them an expressive and en ergetic character - to couple events closely, so that no irrelevant or unnecessary matter should interpose itself between the legitimate relation of cause and effect; and to be careful that the regular stream of the narrative should flow on without interruption to the end of its course, have been withme primary objects. 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.