The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-19
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eallos, th1t t6s people Of South Carolina are 90
old.faahiensd - 70 be disgusted at the difference
between modern professional and practical phi
lanthropy. They are not keeping up with the
march Of mind:
For the Southera Press.
MKssRs EDIroRs That your readers may
know the baseless prelensions and pseudo philan-
thropy Of some of those who would wage an
DISCRIMINATING war against the institutions OF the
South, it becomes my duty 10 request, in behalf
of the board of commissioners Of the poor for
Ksrshaw district South Carolina, place in
your colunns for the following
JOHN G.. VAUGHAN, who has OF late become
conspicuous - the m0uthpiece Of Abolitonism
and kossuthism, WAS once resident OF our
town, (Camden) and the owner Of some thirty
or forty negro slaves. lie sold them probably
in the West, put the money in his pocket, and
moved to Ohio He then became rabd Adolf
Zionist and IN editor Of IN Abolitionist paper.
His mother owned negro woman in this place,
who hired out herself and became responsible
TO the mistress for the money. After Mrs.
VAUGHAN moved to Ohio to live with her son
JoHS from thirty to fifty dollars per year, for
many years. were regularly RENTED to her by
the negro woman, (or the agent,) as her wages.
The old woman became at length very infirm
and helpl. ss, which eventually terminated in
mental arrangement. The old creature was re-
duced to extreme restitution, and much physical
suffering. Her mistress, about two We irs ago,
was lost on the Inflated steamer Orline ST.
Johns, which was burnt up on the Alabama
river With that unfortunate boat disappeared,
il seems, the last hope Of help for old ella
from her owners. Such was her pitiatle cond-
ton about this time, that the municipal anthor-
tics of Camden, placed her in Jail, as we'll to
prevent her from doing some injury to herself
aud others, as for support.
At u meeting Of the commissioners Of the
poor, held in November, 1850, the following
resolution was adopted:
"Resolped, That the secretary be directed to
address letter to ]. {. VAUGHAN, esq, inform.
ing him that his negro woman CMLA, has from
age and other causes become unable to support
herself, and for some months past, has lived on
the charities Of the community and request
him To attend to her wants, or arrangements
would be made to send her on TO him, where he
could give her his personal attention"
The secretary communicated the resolution to
Mr. ", but no reply was ever received. At the
meeting Of the commissioners held the next
month, (December) the secretary was directed
to address him another letter, informing him
again, that the above resolution had been
adopted by the board, and that unless he re-
piled by the 10Th day of January ensuing, it
would be carried into effect, and the circum-
stances published in the papers.
At "a meeting held in February, 1851, the Sec
rotary reported that he had received letter from
j. G.. VAUGHAN, requesting him to employ some
one to take charge Of his woman CILLA, and
upon ascertaining the expense, he would remit
the money forthwith After considerable effort
to procure for her comfortable home the sec.
retnry succeeded in making arrangements with
the Lunatc Asylum of Columbia, to keep her
for 300 per annum, in advance. Mr. V. was
informed Of the arrangement, and was requested
to forward the money. No reply was received,
and after the lapse of some months another let
ter was written to him. Up to this time Mr. V.
has not thought proper to answer.
The woman is still in the Camden Jail, infirm
and deranged, ut Il cost to the town of seventy.
FIVE dollars per year. At the last meeting of
the board, held in February 1852, it was unani-
mously resolved to publish statement of these
facts in the Southern Press at Washington city,
and the New York Herald.
The gentlemen who compose this board are
responsible men, and some of them are person
ally acquainted with Mr. V. The commission
ers think it due to this community, to the South.
ern States, and to the institution of slavery, to
expose to the world the bold pretence and shame
full recreancy to duty of one who has made :" no
small STIR" as philanthropist, elsewhere, with
his matricidal arm raised to thrust the deadly
blow to the institutions of his native State.
He may be rioting in means, the proceeds OF the
sale Of negroes inherited from others, while all
his pecuniary consequence, SO far as known
here, was derived from African slavery. He has
turned bitter enemy to the institution, a wild
fanatic, with the price Of blood in his pocket
II he is honest in his late conversion to the
cause Of human liberty let him disgOrge the
funds taken from the South, at least so much as
will pay the necessary expenses OF old CILA.
1t is hard, very hard, for the South to bear all
the taunts and insults heaped upon her by the
unprincipled Abotionists of the North and
Northwest but it is insupporable, indeed
the most unkndest cut of all for the oppressed
South--to be taxed with the support Of old,
abandoned, worn-out slaves of those who in
their zeal to abuse us, forget their own duties
and moral obligations.
Old CILLA has ceased to remit annually from
thirty to fifty dollars, the proceeds of her hire.
And this philanthropist of a hot-bed growth is
very dull to hear the calls Of charity and of duty
IN this direction, when 800 per year are re-
CURED to keep comfortable helpless negro
woman, worn out in the service of his family.
The coolest stole recognizes the obligation to
maintain and render comfortable a horse, even
a dog, grown old under his fathers or mothers
care, much more a favorite domestic
1t is sincerely hoped, that amid the important
engagements Of Mr.. V. in connection with pc
litcal conventions, Abolitonsm and Kossuth-
ism, he may fiud time to recall to mind lesSef
he must haue learned in his youth in South Car
olina, that "charity begins at home"
To prevent any imputation being laid to the
generally esteemed and much lamented mother
of Mr.. ", who was on her way to this place to
spend the remnant of her days, when the dread
full catastrophe occurred, it is but justice to say
that she had not imbibed the feelings of her
son, but, notwithstanding, possessed more real
philanthropy, and always treated her servant
ella with great kindness; and had she lived,