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F. Colburn Adams. Manuel Pereira; Or, The Sovereign Rule of South Carolina
Manuel Pereira; Or, The Sovereign Rule of South Carolina
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
MANUEL PEREIRA
CHAPTER I. THE UNLUCKY SHIP
CHAPTER II. THE STEWARD'S BRAVERY
CHAPTER III. THE SECOND STORM
CHAPTER IV. THE CHARLESTON POLICE
CHAPTER V. MR. GRIMSHAW, THE MAN OF THE COUNTY
CHAPTER VI. THE JANSON IN THE OFFING
CHAPTER VII. ARRIVAL OF THE JANSON
CHAPTER VIII. A NEW DISH OF SECESSION
CHAPTER VIII. A FEW POINTS OF THE LAW
CHAPTER X. THE PROSPECT DARKENING
CHAPTER XI. THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE
CHAPTER XII. THE OLD JAIL
CHAPTER XIII. HOW IT IS
CHAPTER XIV. MANUEL PEREIRA COMMITTED
CHAPTER XV. THE LAW'S INTRICACY
CHAPTER XVI. PLEA OF JUST CONSIDERATION AND MISTAKEN CONSTANCY OF THE LAWS
CHAPTER XVII. LITTLE GEORGE, THE CAPTAIN, AND MR. GRIMSHAW
CHAPTER XVIII. LITTLE TOMMY AND THE POLICE
CHAPTER XIX. THE NEXT MORNING, AND THE MAYOR'S VERDICT
CHAPTER XX. EMEUTE AMONG THE STEWARDS
CHAPTER XXI. THE CAPTAIN'S INTERVIEW WITH MR. GRIMSHAW
CHAPTER XXII. COPELAND'S RELEASE, AND MANUEL'S CLOSE CONFINEMENT
CHAPTER XXIII. IMPRISONMENT OF JOHN PAUL, AND JOHN BAPTISTE PAMERLIE
CHAPTER XXIV. THE JANSON CONDEMNED
CHAPTER XXV. GEORGE THE SECESSIONIST, AND HIS FATHER'S SHIPS
CHAPTER XXVI. A SINGULAR RECEPTION
CHAPTER XXVII. THE HABEAS CORPUS
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE CAPTAIN'S DEPARTURE AND MANUEL'S RELEASE
CHAPTER XXIX. MANUEL'S ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK
CHAPTER XXX. THE SCENE OF ANGUISH
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
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F. Colburn Adams
Published by Good Press, 2019
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“I'm mighty afraid of that Carysfort reef, since I struck upon it in 1845. I was in a British schooner then, bound from Kingston, Jamaica, to New York. We kept a bright lookout, all the way through the passage, and yet struck, one morning just about day-light; and, five minutes before, we had sounded without getting bottom. When it cleared away, that we could see, there was two others like ourselves. One was the ship John Parker, of Boston, and the other was a 'long-shoreman. We had a valuable cargo on board, but the craft wasn't hurt a bit; and if the skipper—who was a little colonial man, not much acquainted with the judicial value of a wrecker's services—had a' taken my advice, he wouldn't got into the snarl he did at Key West, where they carried him, and charged him thirty-six hundred dollars for the job. Yes, and a nice little commission to the British consul for counting the doubloons, which, by-the-by, Skipper, belonged to that great house of Howland & Aspinwalls. They were right clever fellows, and it went into the general average account for the relief of the underwriters' big chest,” continued the mate.
“We must have all hands ready at the call,” said the Captain. “It looks dirty overhead, and I think we're going to catch it from the north-east to-night. If we do, our position is not as good as before. I don't feel afraid of her, if we only get clear of this infernal coast,” said the Skipper, as he rolled up his chart, and repaired on deck again.
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