The Effects Of Slavery

On the poor white people of the South are thus forcibly dopicted by a writer in the Charleston (S. C.) Courier: 'Shall we pass unnoticed the thousands of poor, ignorant, degraded white peoplo aionr us, who, in this land of plenty, live in cemparative nakedness nnd slarvation? Many a one is reared jn proud Sonlh Carolina from birth to manhood, who has no ver passed -i ' month in which he has not some part of tbr time been stinted for meat. Maiiy.a mother is there who wil] teil you thnt her chairen are but 6cantily supplied ivith bread, nnd much more scan! ilywith meat: and if thry bii-cfad with comfortable raiment, it s at the expense oí their scant y allowance of food. 'lt U p(;ihaps not generally known, tbat there are twenty thousand white persons in this State, who can neilher read nor w rite this is about one in every thirteen of t}O whïlp population. Thnt we are behind. tbe nge in .agrieulture, the mechanic nrts. indnetry nnd enierprise, a appnrent to all who pass through our State. Our good city of Charleston epeake á knon thistubject n t to be aiistokcn-;- sha las lost on-! tiuiu-tand of her population, according to the census of 1340, while lier Sister Ckies havo doubied aiiil qnadrupled theirs." tt?" The Jackson Patriot thinks there sbould bo no Inw on the subject of licenes fbrtlio suleof ardent ppirifs, as intemperance is an evil wliich can best becorrected by inorol ineens. The mearjiag suppose to-be that icrnpernnce wonkl prosper rnot where tlio ' q'iora ihit were sold by pvory one whM pfrn.sed wjibmit rvstrnint. Wc doubt vory muiC We are coijfident that á year'a experience in 'the single to.w ti of Jockson wopld convince the Elditor of his ■'Druukenriess censista in fre(afntly drinking intóxicating liquors; and llie frequency-of:.ihè potations will bc determined nn great nit;t(ie, bythe faoilitioa for. ob1 lajniBir. lUcaw, - - ■ . ■