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GOV. HAMMOND'S LETTERS--NO. L
We lay before our readers to-day the
first Letter OF Governor HAMMOND, of South
Carolina, to the celebrated Abolitionis
GARRISON, in vindication of southern sla.
very. AS each of these Letters will take
one each week-there are five of them in
all. The Charleston Mercury thus speaks
of them and their author We know moi
if we have ever seen any thing from the
able and accomplished author, so worthy
SO worthy of general and careful perusal
His language is full of terse vigor and his
argument plain as light. We like, too, the
bold position he takes in the outset-it is
the only one that southern men ought to
take. Slavery as it exists with us, is nei-
Their moral, social, or political evil; but
is on the contrary the most benefcent form
of organized society that has yet existed.
ADDRESS TO THOMAS CLARKsoN THE
ENGLISH ABOLITIONIST.
Introduction-Ih slare trade, and futile
attempts TO abolish it-prescriptiUe right
-slaUery In The abstract-in IFS moral
and religious aspect-iu its political IN
.Ruences, as Altering public order, and
the safety and poacer Of the State.
SILVER BLUFF, IS. c..
January 29, 1916.
SIR: ] received a short time ago, a letter
from the Rev. Wiloughby NJ. Dickinson,
dated at your residence, "Playlord Hall.
near Ipswich, 26th November, 1914" in
which was enclosed copy of your circu-
lar letter addressed to protesting Christians
in our Northern States, having no concern
with slavery, and to others there. pre-
sumo that Mr.. Dickinson's letter was writ
ten with your knowledge and the docu-
ment incIosed with your consent and ap-
probation. therefore feel that there is no
Improperly in my addressing my reply di-
rectly TO yourself, especially as there is
nothing in Mr.. Dickinson's communication
requiring serious notice. Having abundant
leisure, it will be recreation TO me to de-
vote a portion of it to an examination and
free discussion of the question of slavery
as it exists in our Southern States; and
since you have thrown down the gauntlet
to me, do not hesitate to take it up.
Familiar as you have been with the.dis-
cussion of this subject in all its aspects,
and under all the exciements.i has occa-
stoned for sixty years past, | may not be
able to present much that will be new to
you. Nor ought to indulge in the hope
of materially affecting the opinions you
have so long cherished, and SO zealousiy
promulgated. Still time and experience
have developed facts, constantly furnishing
fresh tests to opinions formed sixty years
since, and continually placing this great
question in points of view, which could
scarcely occur TO the most consummate in
teIect even quarter of a century ago
And which may no! have occurred yet to
those whose previous convictions, preju
dices and habits of thought have thorough
ly and permanently biased them to one fix
ed way of looking at the matter. While
there are pecuiarties in the operation Of
every social system, and special local as
we'll as moral causes materially affecting ii,
which no one, placed at the distance you
are from us, can fully comprehend or pro-
perly appreciate. Besides, it may be pos
sibly novelty to you to encounter one
who conscientiously believes the domestic
slavery of these States to be not only an
inexorable necessity for the present, but
moral and humane institution, productive
of the greatest political and social advan-
tages, and who is disposed as am, to de-
fend it on these grounds.
do not propose, however, TO defend the
African slave trade That is no longer
question. Doubtless great evils arise from
it as it has been, and is now conducted !:
unnecessary wars and cruel kidnapping in
Africa; the most shocking barbarities in the