Jamestown tributes and toasts . the first ofthe Colonies to throw oflf formally the yoke of King George,and to declare herself a free and independent State. Throughout the war for the independence of the thirteenStates she kept in good faith, steadfastly and valiantly, thepledges made to them at Philadelphia on the Fourth of July,seventeen lumdred seventy-six. The burden of that war felllargely upon her. Moultrie, on Sullivans Island, won undying fame. Marlon,Pickens, the Rutledges, Wade Hampton, and the Pinckneys, soharassed Tarlton and Cornwallis, and so delayed and crippledthe latter that h
Jamestown tributes and toasts . the first ofthe Colonies to throw oflf formally the yoke of King George,and to declare herself a free and independent State. Throughout the war for the independence of the thirteenStates she kept in good faith, steadfastly and valiantly, thepledges made to them at Philadelphia on the Fourth of July,seventeen lumdred seventy-six. The burden of that war felllargely upon her. Moultrie, on Sullivans Island, won undying fame. Marlon,Pickens, the Rutledges, Wade Hampton, and the Pinckneys, soharassed Tarlton and Cornwallis, and so delayed and crippledthe latter that he fell an easy prey to Washington at York-town, thus ending the war. And so in Civil affairs, her Lawsons, her Pinckneys andRutledges and Middletons and Ileywards were wise in counciland eminent in shaping the destinies of the great AmericanGovernment. The blood of these great men still flows in the veins ofSouth Carolinians, and The Love of Liberty is Still Her Beacon. Benjamin Sloan, of South Carolina. 65. 66
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