Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-03-30
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cation, that the people OF ooutn Caronha arc o.
old-fashioned as to be disguised at the difference
between modern professional and practical phi
anthropy. They are not keeping up with the
march of mind
sMsssRs. EDrroRs THAT yoar readers may
know the baseless pretensions and pseudo Phl-
lanthropy of some Of those who would wage an
exterminating war against the institutions OF the
South, it becomes my duty to request, in behalf
Of the board of commissioners of the poor tor
Kershaw district, South Carolina, aplace III your
columns for the following:
John c. Vaughan, who has of late become
conspicuous as the mouthpieee Of Abolitionism
and Kossuthism, was once resident OF our
town, (Camden) and the owner Of some thirty
or forty negro slaves. He sold them probably
in the West, put the money in his pocket, and
moved to Ohio. He then became rabid Abo-
litionist, and an editor Of an 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 John,
from thirty to fifty dollars per year, for many
wears, were regularly remitted to her by the ne
gro woman, (or the agent,) as her wages. The
old woman became at length very lnhrm and
helpless, which eventually terminated in mental
arrangement. The old creature was reduced to
extreme destitution, and much physical suffer
ing. Her mistress, about two years ago, was
lost on the ill-fated steamer Orline St. John,
which was burnt up on the Alabama river. With
that unfortunate boat disappeared, it seems, the
last hope of help for old ella, from her owners.
Such was her pitiable condition about this time,
that the municipal authorities Of Camden, placed
her in Jail, as we'll to prevent her from doing
some injury to herself and Others, as for support
At meeting Of the commissioners OF the
poor, held in November, 1850, the following res
olution was adopted:
aResolved, That the Secretary be diredted to
address letter to J. c. Vaughan, Esq, inform
ing him that his negro woman ella, has from
ace 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" ."
r 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 be replied by the
goth day of January ensuing, it would be car
ried into effect, and the circumstances published
in the papers. At meeting held in February,
1851, the secretary reported that he had recelv-
ed letter from ]. C. Vaughan, requesting him
to employ some one to take charge Of his wo-
man ella, and upon ascertaining the expense, he
would remit the money forthwith. After con-
siderable effort to procure for her comfortable
home, the secretary succeeded in making arrange
ments with the Lunatic Asy lum Of Columbia,
to keep her for 500 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 letter was written to him. UP to this
time Mr.. V. has not thought proper to answer.
The woman is still in the Camden Jail, inhrm
and deranged, at cost to the town of seventy
FIVE dollars per year. At the last meeting OF
the board, held in February 1852, it was unan-
imously 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 commissioners
think it due to this community, to the Southern
States, and to the institution Of slavery, to ex-
pose 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 turn
ed bitter enemy to the institution, wild fanat-
ic, with the price of blood in his pocket"
If 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 ella. 1t
is hard, very hard, for the South to bear all the
taunts and insults heaped upon her by the un-
principled Abolitonists Of the North and North
west; but it is insupportable, indeed-'the most
unkind cut Of ALL for the oppressed South
tobetaxed with the support Of the old, abandoned,
worn-out slaves of those who in their zeal 10
abuse us, forget their own duties and moral OBJ
legations.
Old CilIa 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 du-
ty in this direction, when 800 per year are re-
nuired tn keen comfortable HELPLESS negro wo-