MANUEL PEREIRA

or, The Sovereign Rule of South Carolina.

With Views Of Southern Laws, Life, And Hospitality.

By F. C. Adams.

Written In Charleston, South Carolina. Washington, D. C.:

1853.

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

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.

INTRODUCTION.

OUR generous friends in Georgia and South Carolina will not add among their assumptions that we know nothing of the South and Southern life. A residence of several years in those States, a connection with the press, and associations in public life, gave us opportunities which we did not lose, and have not lost sight of; and if we dipped deeper into the vicissitudes of life and law than they gave us credit for at the time, we trust they will pardon us, on the ground of interest in the welfare of the South.

Perhaps we should say, to support the true interests of the South, we should and must abandon many of those errors we