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THE KINSMEN:
OR THE
BLACK RIDERS OF CONGAREE.
A TALE.

BY THE AUTHOR OF
“THE PARTISAN,” “MELLICHAMPE,” “GUY RIVERS,”
“THE YEMASSEE,” &c.

“Failing, I know the penalty of failure
Is present infamy and death..... pause not;
I would have shown no mercy, and I seek none;
My life was staked upon a mighty hazard,
And being lost, take what I would have taken.”

Marino Faliero.


IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
PHILADELPHIA:

LEA AND BLANCHARD.

1841.