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Excerpt from The Progress of Civilization in the United States: Oration Delivered Before the Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina, at Columbia, S. C., June 30th, 1871
South Carolina shone with full-orbed splendor in the great con stellation of States that formed the American Union. Her public men shed lustre upon her name, and took the foremost rank among the statesmen who at that time filled the great places of trust in the Republic and adorned its councils. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
