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THE

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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.

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"IS THERE NOT SOME CHOSEN CURSE,

SOME HIDDEN THUNDER IN THE STORES OF HEAV'N,
RED WITH UNCOMMON WRATH, TO BLAST THE MAN
WHO OWES HIS GREATNESS TO HIS COUNTRY'S RUIN?"
Addison's Cato.

"FOR HE WAS OF THAT STUBBORN CREW
OF ERRANT SAINTS WHOM ALL MEN GRANT

TO BE THE TRUE CHURCH MILITANT;
SUCH AS DO BUILD THEIR FAITH UPON
THE HOLY TEXT OF PIKE AND GUN;

DECIDE ALL CONTROVERSIES BY
INFALLIBLE ARTILLERY."

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;
A bear will not attempt to fly;
A founder'd horse will oft debate,
Before he tries a five-barr'd gate;
A dog by instinct turns aside,
Who sees the ditch too deep and wide.
But man we find the only creature
Who, led by folly, combats Nature;
And when she loudly cries-forbear,
With obstinacy fixes there;

And where his genius least inclines,
Absurdly bends his whole designs.”

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.

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