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Quotation from Hayne's Reply to Webster (Speech on Foot's Resolution) by Robert Y. Hayne
“Never was there exhibited in the history of the world higher examples of noble daring, dreadful suffering, and heroic endurance, than by the whigs of Carolina during the revolution.”
Hayne's Reply to Webster (Speech on Foot's Resolution), Section on the South in the Revolution (Webster and Hayne's Celebrated Speeches in the United States Senate (1853), Wikisource text)
Hayne answers doubts about Southern patriotism by recalling South Carolina's partisan war against the British.
Citation: "Never was there exhibited in the history of the world higher examples of noble daring, dreadful suffering, and heroic endurance, than by the whigs of Carolina during the revolution." — Robert Y. Hayne, Hayne's Reply to Webster (Speech on Foot's Resolution), Section on the South in the Revolution (Webster and Hayne's Celebrated Speeches in the United States Senate (1853), Wikisource text). (id hayne-speech-on-foots-resolution-q6)
Virtues: Fortitude
Portrait: Robert Y Hayne, Unknown author, Public domain.
