...Robert M. Weir Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 The South Carolinian as Extremist Robert M. Weir Why the blood of South Carolinians ran so hot in the ante­ bellum period has long been an intriguing question.1 But in addressing themselves to it historians have generally...

... story he chose an expatriate Southerner for his protagonist, and, to borrow a phrase he used in another connection, he allowed his imagination to soar to the highest Carolinian pitch. The family of Gaston Probert, the heroine s fiance, has lived in Paris for more than half a century. The grandfather...

..., found silver on land belonging to the Cherokee Indians.5 Most South Carolinians did not learn about the discovery until October, 1743, at which time numerous rumors circulated in Charles Town about the location, quality, and future of the newly found silver.6 Realizing the reper­ cussions which a silver...

... to that of Massachusetts (15 votes). With the exception of 1808 the North Carolina vote was undivided, yet the state had a small share in the distribution of federal patronage, only one office of high distinction being given to a North Carolinian under the Jeffersonian regime, the Speakership of the House, which was held...

... thereafter wavered in her pur­ pose and desire. No historian has analyzed the National Dem­ ocratic movement of this crucial decade or attempted' to weigh its significance, although a South Carolinian of that day who became a historian, WL H. Trescot, wrote in 1870 that if this group had had more time...

... as R. G. Stott s The Man Sings, Mad­ ison Cawein s The Poet and Nature, Marshall D. Hay­ wood s Ballads of Courageous Carolinians, and Walter Ma­ lone s Hernando De Soto. The first-mentioned of these volumes, The Man Sings, is an extremely attractive little book of verse. The diction is clear...

... in March 1837, the impending financial crisis forced the new president to champion the sub-treasury scheme, and Calhoun quickly joined hands with his old adversary in support of it. However, the Carolinian overestimated the flexibility of his con­ gressional delegation and his constituency and faced stiff...

... the sub-treasury scheme, and Calhoun quickly joined hands with his old adversary in support of it. However, the Carolinian overestimated the flexibility of his con­ gressional delegation and his constituency and faced stiff opposition at home because of his cooperation with the administration. Three times...

.... Of the many consequences of Brown vs. Board of Education not the least has been a proliferation of studies concerning race relations. Profile in Black and. White is a recent addition to the group. Professor Quint, in quest of objectivity, has allowed South Carolinians as much as possible to speak...

... Carolinians devel­ oped a greater stake in slavery than existed anywhere else in the South. They had ample cause to be anxious about their safety, and their fear of slave revolt was real. Order depended upon slavery s preservation, and it was on this assumption that the state s secession movements rested...

... given us a balanced reconstruction of talk in North Carolina during the period 1750-1860. Of broadest interest is the conception that emerges of the various attitudes toward language. In contrast to the urban, middle-class North­ erner, prone to linguistic anxieties, the North Carolinian of the period...

... and. White is a recent addition to the group. Professor Quint, in quest of objectivity, has allowed South Carolinians as much as possible to speak for themselves and thereby to express the com­ munal psychology of the state. Unfortunately this technique minimizes interpretation to such an extent...

... on the ground of commercial ties was advo­ cated by the Western Carolinian. Federal Politics in North Carolina 169 There is not a day on which we do not see passing through this place (Salisbury) either from this or some other counties of this state, wagons going to South Carolina, with full loads of something...

..., and an opponent of the New Deal.9 Both Smith and Ball, as well no doubt as most informed South Carolinians, considered Waring safe, conventional, and pre­ dictable. Ironically, it was in part Waring s very conventionality which made him unpredictable. First, he sustained an upper-class sense of noblesse oblige...

... thoughts and feelings. At last we have a group of writers. In the past two years native North Carolinians have produced in North Carolina in critical biography, in philology, in history and in historical criticism, in political and social science, in general science, in literary criticism, in prose essays...

... sentation showed fifty-nine native South Carolinians, two from Pennsylvania, two from Massachuetts, six whose former residence was unknown, and one each from Michigan, Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia, and Dutch Guiana. Twenty-three of the entire white delegation paid no taxes whatever...

... men in the state and was looked upon with suspicion and even hatred by North Carolinians everywhere. Even the common people whom he was doing his best to help regarded him as a traitor to the state s proudest traditions. Home and farm ownership without the strangling curse of debt and mortgage...

...Albert M. Webb Copyright © 1912 by Duke University Press 1912 Poems of Occasions by Plato Tracy Durham Albert M. Webb Professor of Romance Languages in Trinity College In recent years there have appeared from the pen of a talented North Carolinian, Plato Tracy Durham, several poems that have...

... which of all in the group will most readily attract the attention of most people, is a tardy but adequate tribute to the life of the North Carolinian who has been most influential in our national affairs. Macon was long a member of congress and a senator, a favorite of the Jeffersonian school, a prime...

... collection reaches back, at least tenuously, to the 1840*5, and has been generously endowed by many friends in this century; it includes printed material dealing with the state and its people, writings of North Carolinians (broadly defined), and periodicals published in North Carolina. Since the entries...