Petition #11380205

Abstract

Forty-six "Inhabitants and Freeholders of the District of Abbeville" seek the repeal to "the restrictions laid by the State Legislature, at the Session Before the last, for the preventing Negroe slaves from being brought into this State." They argue that said act, and “the Act Supplementary to it,” is "a direct Bar to the Increase of Wealth and population of the Upper and Middle Districts." In addition, they assert that "persons from the Middle and Northern States," who planned on resettling in South Carolina, "have by the Opperation of that Law ... been Stoped on our Frontier, and Forced Either to Settle, with their property" in North Carolina or Georgia. The petitioners complain that the law has thus deprived the state "in a great measure of the Means of Increasing her population, and of the Wealth and Industry of a Number of honest and respectable Settlers." They purport that "if the Law Continues in force, [it] Will for years prevent that Increase of Wealth, which the Natural Goodness of our Soil, the Healthiness of Our Climate, and the Freedom of her Government Inspire us with hopes of Obtaining." They therefore pray "that you will either Absolutely repeal the act ... or that you will so modify the Same, as to remove the grievances so Justly Complained of."

Result: Rejected.

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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina

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