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TH2 PATRIOT,
jj printed untl paUliheil wet
MTwoDo.lars per snnura, payable within
thrre moiitU from the receipt of the first
number, or Three Dollars after the txpr
. but a general and extensive system
j of internal improvement throughout
i,v , ; Ilif wnoie oraic .10 iic
nart nf lllS
uiinseu 111 a n !
Message bv opening our water
mnrom. renairinc our old roads and
making new ones" and I would add
bv introducing a general system of
yii-t-iVitiwi imnnivement rouui an
event.
JlTiVERTlSEMEXTS,
UotewseedinR i6 hnes. neatly iwserted tbre
times tor on.- dollar, ana 25 cents for eve
ry succeeding publication; those of grea
tec JenK'h n,H.H?P"rt'?n"'.ljf!:.
" ters to tbe.Iitor nMtii1fi
ration ot'th:it time.
lr . , a, romplisfed I vill take u,,..,. ,
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e a-ri-n would be completely Utd.
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Improve our agricururai cnu.
inn.in such a manner that th fer
tilizing vallies of the west' (as Am
nleased to term then) will
have no advantage over the vallies
and hills or Ni;. convert lur mwv
and unproductive sods of our State
intoluxurient fields and tortile plains,
then m ake such roads as the farmers
can carry exuberent natures better
mfu" with fac tv ana ease 10 a
of very little alarm. But this in
crease roust have been proportion
able among the whites and blacks
ifnd if so into what insignificancy
(inKc ihia alarmine? increase" dwin
.tip What a timid easilv affrighted
his Amicus must be, to be
alarmed at shadows, and those the
production of aeickly fancy and Uis
pie, and you will fitd that & large
portion of U8 jreemeirc not oujy
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employed prontaoiy uu uiai muy oi
ibem are ounqing up r
nice fortune for whiet
men selvrg
Mttve umI
not, and on whose far the vmr of
aomin&iion ex"
amine tboiie farms wbiet are gladly
contributing to the eiViloment of
their owners and yoo win find many
-for the Patriot -
No. II.
m v.miMR: Alv yinciple object
ill making t )c observations which
i(dtii.w. h not to filler into the
,i.o...uCWm.t ativ narlicul ' subject:
J- uiv" y - - - -
but merely to correct the error and
-k.. tho Konhestrv ino which Am
fc has fal en, whether thruugh
desien. I carniot take
n4,.n myself t determine.
He appears to have ne grand ob
atid in order to accom
nlish it, he sedulously endeavours
r,.rtU., njrr if c contributary
He trulv strains, at gnats as to
nvm-v thine which may operate a.
tftitist hfs favourite doctrine, but as
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to what m&y operdie, uowrVi IV-
rawtely, in iis favour he '-swallows
Camels."
. The object which he appears to
have in vi"w is to convince the good
pc. pte of tt:s ,S ate! however re
Iuctnt they maybe to believe it.
thai slavery is the prime cause of all
the evils which have befallen them
A, do! all the disadvantage under
which they now labour If the hea
vens have refused to drop their fat
ness int-) the earth or it the earth
has denied her increase, il the pen-pK-
become discontented and emi
grate to Other States, if our lands
are poor and b ucn, and our efforts
to improve our State and thereby to
cmeliorato our coudi.ion, have been
abortive ami unsuccessful! Slavery
'is the cause of all.
Let us endeavour to examine a
tittle into this all pervading evil and
UlUIIM" H"M J - .
eased imagination. As we can barren, worn out old fifidUvboie noil
not. ascertain the mtrease 01 uic
Lblk- popnlati m of our own btate
lor' the last ten yearn perui?."
may not be improper, in orucr iu
divest ourselves of the tenor wiui
which Amicus has endeavoured, to
bestrew us, to take a view of that
of some of our sister States. The in
crease of the black popul .'ion "of S-C
from 100 tell iaiuw.;8 60.21 while
that of the white tor the same ien.
od was 169,524 more than trible
thft lnrrease of the hlack population.
And it is well known that the num-
was never pointed by (befool of a
Slave: i'l'his is not only U caie a
mn$ the society Mj 'rtMs which
form a large and reipectalfe jiortioD
of the population ofur Coiutry, bat
slso among other deooLjnations
whose inclination does not led then)
to own "laves althoah their pipctplem
do not forbid it It it true live are
many persons among us who by tho
dnomiiiatioo otfrtemtn that ae ntt
brofitabiy employed but the rltoo
i not tbit tbey cottnot be profitably
employed but because this will no. be
io; it matters little lo suck ejL.
where they are, whether in a sltve
holding, or a free state, whether in a
fertile or a barren country their cot
ditton wontd still be the same, ther
would still be inert, sluggish vaga
bonds. -
bpr af ulaves in S. C. in proportion
mand as fair and generous i pn-. e --p;; e numeroUs than
any in the union, and my ifo a?a,nst thrre. mG increase
a r.mner the. aims o W. U-will soon " , , . r
learn lthattheyarefoolj who roam by no means ala Amicus continues thes poverty
and -this is my own ny native course must bnconB ho.tof our countrymen find
land" will be a talisman which, un- But Amicus tells us this alarmin$ ha lam d lbeir cbaffc
land lll oe a lausiuau wuio , k-aJ-in vat numbers to . .'. ... 's.:..:..: .1
iWruHi circumstances, will nvit . .aeter who iu.er.uj ... ic
ihem immoveably to the soil of their .-an anty o,
native State. Tennessee, Alabama and GeoigU
.But to return to Amirns. Iie Uave an cauai,y 0f rights with the
f.mnd no doubt that all the branches Meii? if 0 it ig tt new and strange
o internal improvement recora- doctrielo m0 and i must acknowl
mended by the Gov uere too pow- mygplf greatly indebted to Am-
erftil for hira to combat collectively, J information. But per
nm thi-rerore he selected what lie r" . ii is,t mnnn
- - ... iiitans nc win ich in
consider, d the most tangible parti Sutes wheM he
alter -a.ning .n in agiMH yi.M..j i , ftbout (he Y
.... . . i ... Jwho have been driver,
eeds as il he had completely rowe.u -
the whole. As rcdiculous and ex
travigant a calculation an ifho hud
iiresumcd upon a signal victory D
cuttinc of the head ol a airagler
But it was necessary lor Amicus
to set aside cither" really or hypothe
tirullv. 11 other reasons for the
depopulation of our State by emi
irration before he could introduce
to advantage his fav.uritc doctrine
of slavery to account tor this ex
tensive and lamentable evil.
The alarming increase of the
coloured population" ho asserts
may be looked upon as the prime
cause which has driven such a large
number of our -citizens to where an
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titnent3 interests and feelings of so-
nety.'
What Amicus has taken his no.
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.. f .i....:i ., mu i v or nsr its nas nrouuecu a
rpi it il is as very a ucvn a mi j - --o,
Cood friend Amicus would repre corresponding harmony in the sen
... ..ii i :,n,..in inlAPoata ami r?Piin""4 ft! fiO
qent it. And in order to i
we will follow (he venerable Anai
cus throgh all his pil isophic mazs-8
and tnillifluous periods.
Governor Burton in his Message
to the last General Assembly asks
the important question "what can
otay the tide of emigration now
llowinfc to the West but the im
proveraont of our State? Amicus
Jn his learned c nnment on this pas
sage says bnt whether draining the
Swamps will be found sufficient im
provement to sfaif the tide of emigra
tion: mail well be doubted,
1 admit very fiankly that draining
a.fejiy.swamjis'WQUid not be a suth
cient imiiroVemint to i sUy tliFtitlt
of etnieration'' because this would
be onlv a tmrtial improvement af
lecting only a few individuals and
not operating trcnerally and bcncfi
cialiv upon thti whole community.'
'Amicus has certainly taken a very.
unfair hold on this.sentencc. v hat
the Gov. obveoualy meant by the
improvement of the State, was not
-irieiel4h&draiutnzj3ralc
he did mean
was talking
ast numbers
been driven from our
State by this alarming increase of
the blH'k population, it so men
his puisant urgum- nt that those
people have been driven from their
native State by the dread of this
alarming evil must (all to the ground
lor those numerous emigrants, wnn
very few exceptions, luvo wended
their way to the western ens
trict of Tennessee to Alabama and
a :ir(-iu Hut what cocs more
completely to show tha fallacy of
his argument, is that those vast
A 1 1 t . It AAlt
rrowds ot people wno nave uccn
(fn-penfrom our State have been
attended and accompanied by a num
her of S aves still more vast anu
yet Amicus would gull us with the
belief that they removed to evane
the sathenne storm ol an losur-
rection, can any thing be more cx
inuont ntid foolnhr Can he
seriously attempt to niake us be
tinn of their more fortuuate neieh
hours tbey see themselves slighted
and despised by their superiors, neg
lected by the world, and destitute
of the means of raising themselves
to respectability." These poverty
smitten hoits" why smitten with
poverty? Because they are smitten
with a worse nlasno iom -wieu
noverty itself oria;inat8, t dlenr&si
Des n mm who has squander a
bis ime in vain and frivolous pur.
suits, or wanted his substance ia
dram-shops deserve to be respected
by those who through industry,
enterprise and economy have raised
themselves independaney? However
Amicus mav think, it is mv humble
nninimi that such mm deserve the' 'r
severest consure & animadversion of .r
rjieir countryuien. Whuoeyer Ami
cus will show me a man whose chan.
acter "poverty" has stamped with
inferiority i will show mm one ;who '
was stamped with poverty, by Jazl
ness intemperance or some otuer . ;s
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lions ot this alarming increase "i;j0V6 that men of common sense
our coloured population from i am i ' understandinsr wuld retreat
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unable to conjectnre so tar trom the m our grate with as much pro
population of this State, either white cinjratjot3 a!, it fled from Sodom
or black increasing to an alarming yet carry uitii them the very
extent, we have groat reasons to ., wiliru WA, ,i,e cauije 0f all their
regret hat its increase in no greater. f an(j neasinesH?
I am very norry that I cannot pre- 4 larse oortion of our Soil,"
sent to the readers of the Patriot a Lftvt mieu. iwhich can bo made
Rtatement of the increase of the black .Wnrient to urotitable cultivation
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nonulation of our State, for the i monooolized b !ave proprietors
last ten or twenty years, I am pur- and immediately converted in barren
i i.i. .i . I ...... .....oin k. ik. alimiit itrmlfrv ut iiliin-
suac eti inai me raosi iimiu uini uow- nrWip j.ii, ..-r -i m: i , , . hllt
dly .would havo n,. cause of alarm :!.. MlMirtJ,H -I. vj r",. ..
y . .-- or.ii ii nn i r Kv nn mfini . AfiilfO U'oniu C or Have iiioukih. oi
from any sucli caase. " in i Houner"-;"
degrading vice.
Poverty stumps no man with infe
riority iu this Country. i . H,:
1 The rank is but the guineas stamp
"The man's the gold for a that '
Where is the man of honesty up-
rigbtrcss and integr ty, who is not "
respectedr So true is the isayiMg,
Ilanor and shame in no condition rise" - V'
That some men who are verv noor
nre esteemed and respected by soeieC
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iy, Willie ineir uiio ncunuj uc
hours ore neglected and dispersed.v
It is not cosily equipages an;' spfea
Jed trappings which makes a person
respectable it is the moral worth of
!he man himself and h: correct and
uuexceptioablo deportment.
AmictH says further that thous.
audi have been driven from this cu.iu
try in ordr that their ebildreu miy
iVom the eraiberinsr sto'ta
of tntuection,', who in
Tar vuveles chn the tlnmbcr of the ctea i
itiou re bv no means; Amku would ever have thought of
ne m r. at in-iinlto be enviea. are tea -:ii.tu : ,tc..., :y r
1810, 555 500 in 1820,636,829 giv
ing an increase from 1800 till 1810
of only. 77,330 and from tho last
period till 1820 of only 83,329. 1
' If tills increase were altogether
among tno black population and if
the whites had not in ten years
' Tht ihf' cut docirioe otau insurrection
iruumwio biiiui ij-uv.... - . . i i
are thousands of freemen in X. C. not , Vo insurrection is bu bear which
only profitably but agreeably omploy ' now vvill.not even frighten women &
ed is a truth wlrich even Amicus him- cltihlren. '
self will not deny. nd that there Who ever heard one of the numerw
areIikewHe tsandg T of old fifttds oUS group :f emegrants that passeaV--in
the State whose soil never wis through ur Country in the eoure. of
moistened bv the sweat of a Slave is th ear mention an tn-urrtlon
I. . ... . v.i i .. ...j : ... k n..un nf their reinualr. INOt-
had a f? ngle a'dition to ineir. num. equally true ana injrowtnvcf.r. u . v-..-v ,. LV rr y x'u.
L.- i , : ..,m hnii iuir Lr vr Cnnntrv far en cift!Tio oi lhct3ver thought or tfretta tx
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