West-Jersey pioneer., 1866-01-20
For the West Jersey Pioneer.
LITTER FROM CHARLEHTON
SUNMERvILLE, 5. G., ]
DEC. 29rH, 1856. (

Dec. 18th, 1000.
BEAR PIONEER With feeling OF graft
tude for tho weekly supply Of homo news
which your columns so faithfully bring 70 me-
I sit dswn to collect few fragments OF inter-
est, in tlis pine-woods home, for insertion IN
your welLread pages.
First let me present to you brief description
of this blessed retreat. Twenty-tw miles from
the reviving city of Charleston, on the S. G.
Railroad, in the midst of large surrounding
tracts Of uncleared land, almost perpetually
ous provoking @ strears tssnr afssiing from the numer
every direction, except up hill-but this is not
much of an exception, as few hills abound ex-
cept what may have been reared by the indus
trious ant-reposing beneath the shade OF
forest of grave and venerable pines in uninter-
rupted peace, stands, apparently paralyzed,
the little town of Summerville, if town it may
be called, containing four stores, three church
| es, one school house, town hall and about
| fifty dwellings, more or less.
Concerning these buildings l need say but
little, Every one who has visited Southern
summer-seat, can but remember the "big
white house, lifted about ten feet above the
ground and adorned with the " eternal piazza
and great profusion of ratings and bannisters,
or the little g nigger houses with dirt Chin
neys, the " great big yard" that surrounds all,
and the high fence with locked gates, keeping
all outside but the acknowledged aristocrat.
The inhabitants of this town and vicinity are
Just now getting in quite &C stew over the
free negro labor system. The grounds o.
complaint are about these: The negro, hRs
any other man, will not contract for year.
labor unless he be well convinced, first, tina
he shall receive fair competition for the same
The planter promises a share in the crops pu
Cuffee does not seem inclined to bite so readliy
Hence, the planter rides along on one SIDE
the fenceless plantation on his raw -boned horse
and the freedman, with his bag and SUCK
walks along on the other, each casting furtiv
elances at the other-one not daring and tn
other not deigning to utter word.
While this silent dialogue is going on betwee
! these two well known actors, the plantin
season is stealing slowly but surely upon III
Q and soon will awake all from their idle dream
: and drive them from their wild theories jul
! when they find it too late, and each begin
t say, in a tone of cutting irony that saws th
bones, "Eh, you did it! %
Perhaps it is not generally known how full.
freely and cordially the noble Southrons agre
y to hate all that savors Of Yankee, includin
free government, with all its blessings of FIRE
institutions, free schools, &C. and how it ma
n be said of many of that incompatible clas
: like Israel, they desire liking. Asan evidenc
= of this, take the conduct of many late COZ
d federate officers who have joined the Imperi
j. army in Mexico, together with the commo
J talk every day hear. For an accurate, cie'
10 and full view, however, of the condition Of a
d fairs generally, would refer to the able ar
Of interesting report thereon, by Carl 9prz.
), Nothing but the introduction porthe
n capital, as the " little wedge" to- BE hasti
= followed by northern men, will ever resto
prosperity to this State and make it really
:, | part of the Union still. Men who are not t.
of deeply tainted with the pernicious doctrines
ID State sovereignty and secession, and who a
c. thorough, uncompromising, devoted haters
Ve Slavery and all its half dead of-springs tn
u y exist here. ANDERSON.