Note 56 — Chapter VIII · THE CONDITION AND CHARACTER OF THE PRIVILEGED CLASSES OF THE SOUTH.

The business committee of the South Carolina State Agricultural Society reported, Aug. 9, 1855:—

“Our old fields are enlarging, our homesteads have been decreasing fearfully in number. * * * We are not only losing some of our most energetic and useful citizens to supply the bone and sinew of other States, but we are losing our slave population, which is the true wealth of the State, our stocks of hogs, horses, mules, and cattle are diminishing in size and decreasing in number, and our purses are strained for the last cent to supply their places from the North-western States.”