Famous quotes containing the words union, planters and/or bank:
“I not only rejoice, but congratulate my beloved country Texas is reannexed, and the safety, prosperity, and the greatest interest of the whole Union is secured by this ... great and important national act.”
—Andrew Jackson (17671845)
“The first day that we landed upon that fatal shore
The planters they came round us full twenty score or more,
They rankd us up like horses, and sold us out of hand
Then yokd us unto ploughs, my boys, to plow Van
Diemans Land.”
—Unknown. Van Diemans Land (l. 912)
“on a May morwening upon Malverne hilles
Me befel a ferly, of fairye me thoughte;
I was wery ofwandred and wente me to reste
Under a brod bank by a bournes side;
And as I lay and lenede and lookede on the watres,
I slomerede into a sleeping, it swyede so merye.”
—William Langland (13301400)