Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-06-23

houriehipg people in the Wofiu. In otner piaces
where its labor was not productive or impera
lively essential, that race has been made tree
sometimes with disastrous consequences to it
self and to industry. But we will nos make
free. We canno, do 80. We bold that SLAYER
is essential to our existence as producers
what Europe rsquiree; nay more, we malntai
it Ia ip the abstract right in principe; and som
of rs 20 30 far as to maintain that the oni
proper form of society, according TO the Law {
God and the exigencies of man, is that whic
has slavery as its basis. As to the slave, be
bappier far In his state Of servitude, more civi
lied and religious, than he Ia or could be-
free or In his native Africa. H
, have already endeayored to describe u
portion Of the State through which Travelled
and the aepect of Charleston, and l will no
proceed, at the rick of making this letter long,
than it shoula be, to nisae few observations Q
/. matters which struck me during my visit to OF
~ Two OF ,he planters OF the many who wei
enough 10 give invitations to their res
4. she Stste. Early one foe morning,
kino >.stIug steamer to visit plantI
dences in : and Maccamaw district,
started in c. State, north Of Charlie
tion in the Pede.
the Island coast of the q TO the minds
ton. the Uuit
The only source of uneasine.. ''.de 81
our party arose from the report tina.
States squadron was coming to block.
port, which would have cut of our line Oh
treat, and compelled US to make long detour
and a somewhat difficult journey by landing,
seeing that the roads are mere sand tracks, as
the immense number of rivers and creeks offers
some excuse tor not improving the land commu.
Dication. Passing Sumter, cn which men are
busily engaged, under the Confederate flag, in
making good damages, and mounting guns, we
put out a few miles to sea, and with the low
sandy shore, dot ed with soldiers, and guard
houses, and clumps of trees, on our left, in
few hours pass the Santee river and enter an
estuary into which the Pedee and MaccamsW
rivers run few miles farther to the northwest
The arid, barren, pine.c .c,vered sandhills which
form the shof es Of this estuary are guarded by
rude batteries mounted with heavy guns and
m AIMED by the State troops, some OF whom we
Can see stroling along the beach, or with arms
glancing In the sun light, pacing up and down
Oh their posts. On he left hand side there are
said to be plantations, the site- Of which are
marked by belts of trees, and after we had pro-
ceedsd q few miles from the sea the steamer
ran aloDgslde jetty and pier, which was crowd.
ed by men In uniform waiting for the news and
for supplies of creature comforts.
Ladies were cantering along the 6ne hard
beach, snd some gigs and taxcarts fully laden
rolled along very much as one sees them at
Scarborough Toe soldiers on the pier we're
all gentlemen of the country. Some, dressed
in gray tunics and yellow facings, in high felt
hats and pumes and jack boots, would have
done no disgrs ace In face, figure, and bearing to
the gayest cavaliers who ever thundered at the
heels Of Prince Rupert, Their horses, full of
Carolina fire and mettle, ct cd picketed under
the trees along the margin OF the beach. Among
these men who had been doing the duty of com.
mon troopers in pstrolling the sea coast were
gentlemen possessed of large estates and prince
ly fortunes; aud one who stood among them
was pointed out to me as captain Of company
for whose uses his lberality provided unbound
ed daily libations OF champagne, and the best
luxuries which French ingenuity can safely i'm
prison In those well known caskets with whict
Crimean warriors we're not unacq tainted at the
close of the campaign. They we're eager for
news, which wa shouted out to them bv their
friends in the steamer, and one was struck by
the intimate personal cordiality and familiar
acquaintance which existed among them Three
heavy guns, mounted in an earthwork defended
by palisades, covered the beach and the landing
place, and the garrison was to have been rein :
forced by a regiment from Charleston, which,
however, had not got In readiness to 90 up en-
our steamer, owing TO some little difficulty be.
tween the volunteers, their officers, and the
quartermaster generals department
mentiCn these particulars to give an idea OF
the state OF defense in which South Carolina
holds itself, tor, unless Georgetown, which lies
at the head of this inlet. could be considered an
object of attack, one seeks In vain for any rea-
son TO induce an enemy to make his appearance
In this direction A march on Charleston by
land would be an operation of extreme difficult
ty, through series of sandhills, alternating
with marshes, water-courses, rivers AID flooded
rice-felds. As to Georgetown, which we bave
now reached, nothing can be said by way of de.
scription more descriptive than the remark of
Its inhabitants, that it was fuished town 100
years ago. Il Is dosy, sleepy, sandy, lifeless,
struggling village, with wooden houses drawn
up In right lines on the margins of great,
straight, grass- grown pathways, lined with
trees, and known to the natives as streets.
Arrived at deep chocolate colored stream,
called Black River, full of Ash and alligators,
we tiud fat large enough to accommodate We
hicles and passengers, and propelled by two ne.
groes pulling upon stretched rope, 10 the man.
ner urual in the ferry boats Of Switzerland,
ready for our reception. Another drive through
Q more open country, and we reach fine grove
Of pine and live oak, which melts away into
q shrubbery, guarded by rustic gateway, pass.
ing through which we are brought by Q sudden
turn into the planters house, buried In trees,
which dispute with the green sward, and with
Wild flower beds every yard of the space which
lies between the hall-door and the waters OF
the Psdee; and in few minutes, as we gaze
over the expanse Of ields, just tinged with
k, u. A,ak ltfa M h. Il
marked by the deep water cuts, and bounded by
o fringe Of unoessing forest. the chimneys of
the steamer we had lefs at Georgetown, gliding,
as it we're. through the fields, indicate the ex-
istenoe of another navigable river still beyond.
Leaving with regret the verandah which com
manded so enchanting q foreground of flow ers,
rare shrubbery, and bearded live oaks, with
each graceful, sylvan outline distinctly pencled
upon the waters of the river, We enter the
house, and are reminded by Its low, browed, old.
fashioned rooms Of the country houses yetto be
found In parts of Irelsnd or the Scottish bor-
der, with additions made by the luxury and love
of foreign travel Of more than one generation
of educated Southern planters. aIso
Paintings from Italy illustrate tho walls In
juxtaposiIion with Inter resting portraits of early
colonial governors aud their lovely woman kind,
limned with no uncertain hand, and full Of the
vgor Of touch and na,urslness Of drspery of which
Coplsy has lett us too few exemplsrs, and one
portrait Of Benz min West claims for itself
such honor as his own pencil Gan give. An
excellent library, filled with collections Of
French and Euglish classics, and with those
popderous editions Of Voltaire. Rousseau, the
Memories pour Srrvir, books Of travel and hiss
tory, such as delighted our forefathcrs 10 the
last century, and many works of American and
general history, afford ample occupation for
rainy day. But. alas, these, and all other good
things which the house affords, can be epjoyed
but for brief eeason. Just as nature has ex-
handed every claim, developed every grace, and