The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1861-08-07
FOR THE LANCASTER LEposR.1
The Greas Work R.fora us.

and woman Of us come forward and bear
their "bob' in this great drama Some
f"ur or live companies will perhaps have to
he raised in this District, to be our Quota
in the Stale. These canno. be raised and
| equipped without money. Therefore let
US who have not shonlderrd our nu~ket
and marched To the tented fields. open our
purses and raise fund for the purpose of
unlt"rming and providing for the wants,
when Wounded, Of those men who are dis
posed to 60 and defend our rights at the
point Of the bayonet. And also for the
purpose Of maintaining the families of those
who have and will volunteer for the service
OF their country, aud who ARE not able to
maintain themselves. Therefore, let us lay
aside "old fngrism" and come To our duty
liberally and willingly. II the whole tax
payers at the District would only put into
this fund fifty per cen; upon their general
tax. that would raj Sc Il sum of 1000 pr
5rO0 dollars, aud that would b. a sum suf
ficient nnd adequate at present for the OBJ
Jects to which have alluded. That sum
would hurt no one for such n causr in
which we are engaged. II will have ten
dency to nerve and buoy mp our volunteers
by showing to them our sympathy, in uni.
forming them and providing for their flmi
lies during their servic" in the war
" more companies can be raised togeth,
rf with sufficient amount Of money for
the objects have in view, think we snouIi
have committee Of five or seven with n
Secre'ry and Treasurer, whose duty shall
be tn procure blank book in which TO re-
cord all the names of subscribers To this
fund so that posierity can see who bore
thct bob III this Curious and stuppndous
undertaking, in the way of furnishing means
tor speedy terminalIoL Of this umrghtcous
war waged against TIA by the greedy LIN
r"lni,es Of the Nnrth This committee
shoald keep and record in .hi- book IN nc
count current, so that the people can see
the .mone' received and for what purposes
spent
Then at some future time a port should
be published it the lancaster Ledger. the
same as our reports "t com nis,irurrS nf
roads and bridges, &c urc mrG. out and
punished IhIs viii glv" conf icn,r 10
the enterprise by making an exhibit uu tn.
people how their money have been applied
Then think all those who will not bear
their "bob' should and will feel ~ If they
had skulkch from duty which thcv owe
To their God. their families, their country
and 10 po-tcrity.
Fhis is cause, in which we all.
both great and small, high and low
rich and poor. are equally Interested. For
! have ALWAYS believed in the doctritc nat
! heard diSlm.ui-nei gentleman rxyrr,,
NJ enc time, that the "tich ana poor we're
mutually dependant upon each other" But
IL has been published at the North by the
notorious Helper and others, who are SOW.
"rs OF discord and disconi eminent, that tn.
poor man OF the South would not Ii .ht for
Southern rights. But thu'k Goi t,-y have
been wonderfully mistaken On tTaI subj IT
For ttc pour mln IaS shnulirrri hts mI,.
Ret rnd gOn" to ,hr war with the rich. knn !, .
ing II 10 be for every mans Independence
at the South.
have hard OF son. few isolated inii-
tIdnriS IA tunes gon. bv who were dsron'
tented and took nn- side view OF the
uni'cr, bat d. not understand how any
citizen, especially IN the State of South
Carolina can come to any other conclusion
than, tina, the poor mans rIghts are tn.
Fich mans rights, and the rich mans rights
are th" poor man'S rights. For there i, no
State III ,ne Eorf'.dcta'e States, nor IN "a.
old Federal Stntrs that IN ikcs the same pro
NiSI"n Tor the interest OF the DO Dr man. than
"nr rhivalrou~ little State of South Caro-
lima ln the hr~t instance, the members of
the Legislature have to have II property
qurIiIicrtion. Then, that property qnaIi!icn.
ton taxc, itself for the p""r and men in
moderate circumstances. By putting the
heavy tax upon our slave population who
ARE owned by the class GENERALLY called
rich l.et i"e hers remark to the non.t,x
payers in Sorth Carolina tnrt by these very
slaves for whose freedom the Northern DEM
"g"gurs hnvc had y" much hy pocrltical svm-
patty. y"ur very heads are saved from tax
alton TO support the Government. TO you
and Nil, these slave, are u God send, great
blessing for The want Of these slaves at
The Norm Their poor people have been
made 10 bear heavy poIl.tax The North
pretenis To believe slavery To be n sin. and
even s"mu nj the South once believed II to
be a mor.l evil I believe in no su,h doc.
trne, II did, would believe It u sin AMI a
moral evil that the Creator has m,ie the
slaves hair sinkey and their skin olack, while
he has made my hair straight aud my skin
white; that he has made some women very
handsome. while Others are very hard fen
tnred and also that lie has given Dr. Thorn.
well talent and genius that mai es HIM
rank among the first Divines Of hi- are
""''o 'c "an oiiJ gwen ut talent 10 De
n iiiler of the earth lie fills the spb-r.
for which he was created, | I'LL niue. To
believe slavery n sin il but To believ. these
other distinctions. are sins. This has been
the grent sin of the world in mun, not vii
ling for man TO propose and God to dispose
Us Ills VIII secineth best)
For you perceive that the man who owns
a slave worth Sl0e, paws as much tax as
man who owns five thousand dollars
worth Of Land. TINS was done have no
doubt from the very fact that n g,eat mum
ber Of our men ow ned land that did not
ow single slave, =" IT can be easily seen
that the presumption was that the land
owners were men in morderate cifcumslan
es aud lhu slave owners were TO be the
heavy tax payers. A man in this State
might own 100000 dollars worth of land
and not pay rs much TAX IA man owning
10000 dollars worth Of slaves. In this way
the land owners might have this advantage
(and be rich too) over the slave owner
Because the land owner can hire The poor
men to work their land aud get clear Of pay.
ing any iaxes for Their labor. knew a tax
payer who LETT this District after selling his
land and uyrstea his ca initial in Land. in