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and left Charleston, while a person law " the leader of a tarin the crowd was heard to offer himself as the city on and-feather gang, to be called into the service of time second a Legislature The the occasion." Nor is this all. to the officers of the

" caught " the fever, and, yielding to

its

influence^ passed an-

any person other statute! forbidding, under these befriend to commission within the State from accepting a extending still, severer penalties colored mariners and under for life, prohibiting any person " on his severe penalties,



even to imprisonment

own

behalf, or

by

virtue of any authority from any State," to

come within South-Carolina plete

its

for this purpose

work, the Legislature took

away



and then,

to

com-

the writ of habeas cor-

such mariners. a simple narrative, founded on authentic documents. simply to enroll it in I do not adduce it now for criticism, but stages—beginning with the earliest pretension of South-

pus from

Such

all

all

is

its

yet other preCarolina, continuing in violence, and ending in Barbarism of the where instances special the tensions—among yet stands confessed even in official conduct. And

Slavery

which may well give to South-Carolina the " where shipwrecked mariners dread to character of a shore its details from beginland," has been openly vindicated in all while one of ning to end by both the Senators from that State, his testiborne has them, [Mr. Hammond,] in the same breath, public the of mony from personal knowledge to the character old kind pleasant, was a ao-ent thus maltreated, saying: "He

this transaction,

for him during the gentleman, and I had a sort of friendship short time I sat near him in Congress. or at the commuThus, sir, whether we look at individuals, or at official outbreaks where' Slavery exists, at lawless

nity

Enough, you will conduct Slave-masters are always the same. Slavery, but not expose to enough Yes; say, has been said. most grievous and The most instructive enouo-h & for Truth. part

still

remains.

in It is the exhibition of Slave-masters reflects representative the course,

Of Congressional history. political opinions of the constithe character as well as the It follows that to obey. boast tuents, whose will it is his reprenaturally are Slave-masters of the passions and habits perhaps, by extent, certain a to chastened sented in Congress— Law, but breaking out in the requirements of Parliamentary