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SPAIGHT answered that there was a contest between the Northern and Southern States that the Southern States, whose principal support depended on the labor of slaves, would not consent to the desire of the Northern States to exclude the importation of slaves absolutely.
And so Mr. Spaight, with a little round table at his elbow, and his heels over the fender, sipped his steaming punch, and thawed inwardly and outwardly, as he answered their questions and mixed in their speculations.
NORTH CAROLINA William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson. SOUTH CAROLINA John Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler. GEORGIA William Few, Abraham Baldwin. Attest: William Jackson, Secretary.
The judges "were fiercely denounced as usurpers of power. Spaight, afterwards governor, voiced a common notion when he declared that 'the state was subject to the three individuals, who united in their own persons the legislative and judicial power, which no monarch in England enjoys, which would be more despotic than the Roman triumvirate and equally insufferable."
At sight of a sea far larger than its fellows, he crouched down, releasing his hands from the spokes. The Francis Spaight sheered as her stern lifted on the sea, receiving the full fling of the cap on her quarter.
But there was quare stories my mother has them all about how one Nicholas Spaight got into trouble on the head of it." "And what did they say of this Nicholas Spaight?" I asked. "Oh, for that matther, it's soon told," she answered.
In the meantime, the old gentlemen of the club were in a thrilling suspense, and that not altogether disagreeable state of horror in which men chew the cud of bitter fancy over other men's catastrophes. After about ten minutes in came young Spaight. 'Well, said the colonel, 'is Cluffe safe or eh? 'Cluffe's safe only half drowned; but poor Puddock's lost. 'What! 'Drowned, I'm afraid.
But Pak Chung Chang fell into a melancholy, and ever after he shook his head sadly, with tears in his eyes, whenever he regarded the expensive nose of his ancient and very-much-to-be-respected ancestor. The Francis Spaight was running before it solely under a mizzentopsail, when the thing happened.
"'That large man with the red face, said I, 'beside your pious and musical friend Spaight who is he? "'He is an Orange butcher, sir, who would think very little of giving a knock on the head to any Protestant who won't deal with him.
Colonel Spaight remembers that in Strokestown Union, Roscommon, when the guardians there received a supply of one hundred tons of seed potatoes, they distributed eighty tons, and were then completely at a loss what to do with the remaining twenty tons. Mr. Parnell and Mr.
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