THE 648 BLACK GAUNTLET; A TALE OF Plantation Life in South Carolina. BY MRS. HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT, WIFE OF THE INDIAN HISTORIAN, AND AUTHOR OF "AFRICAN LETTERS," ETC. ETC. www "IS THERE NOT SOME CHOSEN CURSE, SOME HIDDEN THUNDER IN THE STORES OF HEAV'N, "FOR HE WAS OF THAT STUBBORN CREW TO BE THE TRUE CHURCH MILITANT; DECIDE ALL CONTROVERSIES BY Butler's Hudibras. PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. PARYARD COLLEGE LIBRARY THE GIFT OF FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY Feb.2111732 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by MRS. HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia. DEDICATION ΤΟ HENRY ROWE SCHOOLCRAFT, LL.D. "Brutes find out where their talents lie; And where his genius least inclines, NE NA BAIM,* you have so repeatedly urged me to write sketches of character in Washington (the omnium gatherum of the world); and sketches of plantation life, in my own native State of South Carolina, where my ancestors have lived from its earliest settlement, that I have, for two months past, snatched every moment I could dutifully spare from my innumerable domestic cares, to comply with your wishes, by describing every-day life on the plantations. South Carolinians, * Ne na baim, Indian word meaning my husband. |