Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1866-08-31
: ..:N'ilOIUME Z M XIV NO. 20.

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stay laws are, as 4 general rule, popularity
seekers, or those who owe more than. they
expect to collect from, theit, ,dsbtorsa 80
I pity the man reduced to poverty by
the late war, and sympathise With bfm
in his struggles, even where, III bis extreda-
'ity, he desres to stay the hand Of justice;
but great is my contempt for the lswyer,
or well-informed man.. who, Tor little
popularity, will deluds his fellows and
ruin his couutry-for il is too true that
our honor aud Our crodit are all that are
left u.s. take them away and we are poor
indeed.
Let public opinion 'esone, and fear not
the bug-bear Of the poor debtor being
sold out Of house and home.' I ask when
aud in how many instances in our State,
from lis earliest history, has man and his
family been sold out Of. house and home
and turned out Of doors by his creditor,
unless the debtor connived at it himseif.
in order to take tho benefit of the Insol-
vent Debtors Act, or where the debtor
was fraudnlently making way with or
screening his propertya .-s,-.........
LAISSEZ NOUS FAIRE.
THE NEGROES. At BEAUFORT
A correspondent Of a Pennsylvania pa
per, who has had his eyes opened writes
homo as follows;
GAN the strangers here, With, few excep-
tions, seem to think or care about, is ma
king money. They wero. .adven.urers who
followed the army for that object, and that
they seem determined to- effect. When
look back upon old times, my heart sick
ems at the contrast. The North called the
the South, if not savage, yet. half civilized,
What sort Of thing. is this that 10 comet
As to the negroes formerly among them
theft was almost unsnown-cusipg and
swearing unkuown-bsgging unknown.
Now. all is as common as The air you
breathe. Formerly nobody thought Of fas.
tenipg their doors at night--pow-sbut
poor creatures, I am truly sorry for them.
They are beginning to understand mAttais
-and Yankees, LIDO notsay they dsiteto
return to slavery, though hare met nilh
many that would be glad to do ID theft
hearts are turning 70 their Old mAatars ana
their families, as, after all, their best friends
and most to, be dependad op. They ale
learning what poor bireiings freedom is
in the hands Of graspipg 'sBosses.' Z Those
on many, If. mott on an The piantations,
owned BY, or leased by The Government to
Incomess' are now living on sredit--ths
goods sold them at, at least 8 hundred par
,ent--and all their shares of:ths oostoh
they y hsss TO make, they are TO give up siat
fohr 70 sizsssn.> ger pound Some OF tie
'nagrodss soompta.n 6Iseaz '1ask sNhSys do
you submit IA III Il TSsy Z ihaas@.F % kby
nasss whas ssp .as a ss5 s issseii,..
to quit the old place. }Ihe sHass maya f
you do not like 70 work for nass ihsnbssoEf
and get another hems, and shst the Bsnf
Knoass weean's gst. IND tlisss wkahsss.
iaads 81 their own, asslgnssa bgs sthe Cor
s.nnsnt ars ID tssesfcf ThsT. usaiss usa iS,s
them 80 aen sslIlpg tbs .ies otspls O.
ing, thsua. {. Thus tHass toIsrasnanlit fmar
prevent going any nftHsr ID form but ~
gal OF Yankee csinnine iaant .sfo1s
q round; anyt thing md q isw gssfs no
Negro Nilt asn any 8 land in ths srish