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/ - N"P0iSSS Pufsults huu many OF tnem
settle down into habits Of idlensss. and be.
come the almost passive objects Of all lie con.
sequences. And lament 10 say that I have
observed Of late yeArS that an eviden. delerio.
ration is taking place in this part Of the pOpu.
'auon, the younger portion Of IL being leSA ed.
ucated' less industrious and in every point oI
view less respectable than their ancestors"
I ln the January No., 1850, Of De BOsSs Re.
V'e0, In an article on Manufactures in South
Carolina" we have an exhibition Of the fear.
entertained Of bringing together masses Of non.
slaVeholding southern white population even
ior manufacturing purposes:
80 long as these poor but industrious peo.
pie could see no mode OflviBg except by de.
grading operation Of work With the negro upon
The plantation, they we're eoutsnl to endure
life in its most diScOursging forms. satisfied
they were above the slave, though faring often
worse than he. BuIthe progress Of the world
is on Ward, and though in some sections il is
slow, still it is OnS0ard, and the great mass oI
our poor white population begin to understand
that they have rights, and that they. too, are
entitled to some Of the sympathy which fall,
upon the suffering. They are fast learning
that there is an almost infinite world Of indus.
try opening before them, by which they can
elevate themselves and their families from
wretchedness and ignorance; to competence
and intelligence. II is this great spkeaving Of
oar masses that Ue haze TO fear, so far as our in
sttaiOns are concerned.
VIM. Gregg, Esq, in an address before the
South Carolina Institute, in 1851, upon man
ufactures, remarks
"From the best estimate that have been
able 10 make, l put down the white people who
ought to work, End Who do not. or who are SC
employed as to be wholly unprOductivs TO the
state at one hundred and twenty five thousand
By this it appears that one.6fh o.
the present poor whites Of our state would bt
necessary to operate 900, 900 spindles. =
The appropriation annually made by our legis.
lature for our School Fund, every one must be
aware, so far as the country is concerned, has
been little better than waste Of money.
While we are aware that the nsrthern and
eastern states find no difficulty in educating
their poor, We are ready to despair Of sue cesI
in the matter, for even penal laws against th,
neglect Of education would fail to bring many
Of our country people to send their children to
school:
II have long been under the impression and
every days experience has strengthened my
convictions, the evils exist in the wholly neglect
ed condition of this class Of persons. Any man
who isan observer Of things could hardly pass
thro' our country without being struck with the
fact that the capital, enterprise and intelligence
is employed, in directing slave labor and the
consequence is, that a large portion Of our poor
white people are wholly neglected. and are suf
fered to while away an existence in state bu
one step in advance Of The Indian OF the forest
1t is an evil Of magnitude, and nothing but
change in public sentiment will effect its cure
These people must be brought into daily con
tact with the rich and intslligent-tLey mus
be stimulated to mental action. and taught t
appreciate education and the comforts Of civil
lied life; and this we believe, may be effected
only be the introductions of manufacturers.
MY experience at Granitevile has satisfied me,
that unless oar poor people can be brought to-
gether in villages and some means Of employ
ment afforded them, it will be an utterly hope
less effort 10 undertake to educate them, **+%
Here is the testimony of Governor Ham
moud Of South Carolina, the great leader Of
the nulifying party now assuming the title Of
democracy. We extract it from an address
before the South Carolina Institute, in 1850.
He is speaking of that class of people, estima'
ted by Wm. Gregg, Esq, of South Carolina
in his address before the South Carolina Insti.
tute 1881, to be l95.00O-One half Of the white
population of the state:
They obtain precArious subsistence by Oc-
casiOnal jobs. by hunting. by fishing, by plum
dering fields or folds, aud too often by what i
in its effects far worse,--trading with slaves
aeducing them 10 plumber for their ene6t.'
Hon. J. H. Lumpkins Of Georgia speaking
in 1859 spOn the Industrial Regeneration Of
the South says:
1T is objected that these manufacturing ss'
Establishments will become thehot beds Of crime.
But I am by no means ready to cOncede that
our poor, degraded. half fed, half.clothed, and
ignorant population without Sabbath Schools
or any other kind Of instruction, mental or NOR
al. or withou any just appreciation of charac-
ter--will be injured by giving employment,
which will bring them under the oversight Of