Part 32 (2/2)

He exclaiislature from such 'penny wit and pound foolishness'! What sir, keep a nation in ignorance, rather than vote a little of their own money for education!

Only let such politicians renorance What was it that brought the British, last war, to Carolina, but her lack of knowledge? Had the people been enlightened, they would have been united; and had they been united, they never would have been attacked a second tiot from us at fort Moultrie, in 1776, they would as soon have attacked the devil as have attacked Carolina again, had they not heard that they were 'a house divided against itself'; or in other words, had anorance, were disaffected to the cause of liberty, and ready to join the British against their own countryat losses in Carolina, of which few have any idea

”According to the best accounts, America spent in the last war, seventyto their population, gives to Carolina about eight ht years, a enerally believed, the British, after their loss of Burgoyne and their fine northern ariven up the contest, had it not been for the foothold they got in Carolina, which protracted the war at least two years longer

And as this two years' ruinous war in Carolina ing to the encourageenorance may fairly be debited to two millions of loss to Carolina

”Well, in these two extra years of tory-begotten war, Carolina lost, at least four thousandthem, a Laurens, a Williams, a Caold of Ophir could value

But rated at the price at which the prince of Hesse sold his people to George the Third, to shoot the A a head, or one hundred and fifty dollars, they make six hundred thousand dollars

Then count the twenty-five thousand slaves which Carolina certainly lost, and each slave at the moderate price of three hundred dollars, and yet have seven millions five hundred thousand To this add the houses, barns, and stables that were burnt; the plate plundered; the furniture lost; the hogs, sheep, and horned cattle killed; the rice, corn, and other crops destroyed, and they amount, at the most moderate calculation, to fiveof those losses, which cannot be rated by dollars and cents, such as the destruction of morals and the distraction of childless parents and s, but counting those only that are of the plainest calculations, such as,

1st Carolina's loss in the extra two years' war 2,000,000 2d For her four thousand citizens slain in that time, 600,000 3d For twenty-five thousand slaves lost, 7,500,000 4th For buildings, furniture, cattle, grain, &c &c destroyed, 5,000,000 ----------- 15,100,000 -----------

Making the enormous su an annual interest of nearly ten hundred thousand dollars besides!

and all this for lack of a few free schools, which would have cost the state a hed, and told him I wished he had not broached the subject, for it had h to make any one sad

But it cannot be helped but by a wiser course of things; for, if people will not do ill make them happy, God will surely chastise them; and this dreadful loss of public property is one token of his displeasure at our neglect of public instruction”

I asked him if this were really his belief ”Yes, sir,” replied he, with great earnestness, ”it is e it for worlds It is my firm belief, that every evil under the sun is of the nature of chastise for our benefit When you see a youth, who, but lately, was the picture of bloom and manly beauty, now utterly withered and decayed; his body bent; his teeth dropping out; his nose consumed; with foetid breath, ichorous eyes, and his whole appearance hastly, and loathsome, you are filled with pity and with horror; you can hardly believe there is a God, or hardly refrain fro him with cruelty But, where folly raves, wisdoe of lawless lust, wisdoal purity and love In like manner, the enor no norance, ought to teach us that of all sins, there is none so hateful to God as national ignorance; that unfailing spring of NATIONAL INGRAtitUDE, REBELLION, SLAVERY, and WRETCHEDNESS!

”But if it be ant houses, rich furniture, fat cattle, and precious crops, destroyed for want of that patriotise of our interests would have inspired, then how much more melancholy to think of those torrents of precious blood that were shed, those cruel slaughters andthe citizens froedies would never have been acted, had our state but been enlightened, only let us look at the people of New England Froion's sake Religion had taught them that God created men to be happy; that to be happy they must have virtue; that virtue is not to be attained without knowledge, nor knowledge without instruction, nor public instruction without free schools, nor free schools without legislative order

”Ae of duty is the sa it to be the first co it to be the will of God that ”all should be instructed, froislators at once set about public instruction They did not ask, hoill my constituents like this? won't they turn me out?

shall I not lose my three dollars per day? No! but fully persuaded that public instruction is God's will, because the people's good, they set about it like the true friends of the people

”Now mark the happy consequence When the war broke out, you heard of no division in New England, no toryism, nor any of its horrid effects; no houses in flahbors waylaying and shooting their neighbors, plundering their property, carrying off their stock, and aiding the British in the cursed work of Aation But on the contrary, withwith love for theainst the eneainst the ravening wolves

”And their valor in the field gave glorious proof how ht when they know that their all is at stake Seefroulars, to burn the Ah this heroic excursion was coht, the far around the pieces, presently knocked down one-fourth of their number, and caused the rest to run, as if, like the swine in the gospel, they had a legion of devils at their backs

”Noith sorrowful eyes, let us turn to our own state, where no pains were ever taken to enlighten the minds of the poor

There we have seen a people naturally as brave as the New Englanders, for s possessed, of the dangers threatened, suffer lord Cornwallis, with only sixteen hundred eneral Greene upwards of three hundred reat states of South and North Carolina as far as Guilford Courthouse! and, when Greene, joined at that place by two thousand poor illiterate ain by therace? For, though posted very advantageously behind the corn-field fences, they could not stand a single fire from the British, but in spite of their officers, broke and fled like base-born slaves, leaving their loaded ain, as Weereat number of brave and truedesperate to make his point, he is not entirely frank here in his descriptions of events

The ”poor ditch” described beloas doubtless better protection than ”corn-field fences”, nor did the militia flee the field, but only fell back on the ured, such as differences in population density and geography

Finally, a large nuland loyalists (tories), whose existence Weeht for the British in the Carolinas