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of my personal safety while travelling, I have none whatever, from the gentlemen whom I met, I invariably experienced polite and courteous treatment, from all persons civility. I have been to the principal places in the county, and I have held conversations with the most intelligent and influential men, I could find, I am consequently enabled to form a pretty good idea of the number and condition of the destitute.

Destitute persons are not here to be found about towns, for there are really no towns in the county, nor are they to be met with on the public roads, deep in the pine solitudes the poor white nourishes and hides his wretchedness, only to be revealed to the humane Doctor who visits him in the wilderness, and finds him dying of want and fever in his wretched hovel; the aged or infirm negroe to whom liberty has proved a doubtful blessing throws himself on the mercy of his former master, to whose feet he crawls like a dog, perhaps he is retained and fed by the charity of the planter, perhaps he is only allotted a log cabin to end his days in. Men of different political views all concurred in stating that much wretchedness and poverty existed throughout the County, which is one of the poorest in the State. Soon after my arrival at