SOIT11 CAROLINA. 



STOCKTON, ROBERT F. 709 



grain for the destitute wore unsuccessful owing 

 19 fixed in the joint filiation. 



The amendment to tin* I-Ydcral Constitution 

 i as artielo 11 was brought to tlio notice 

 -lat uro by Governor Orr, \vbo said : 

 ' It is umieeessury to .dwell upon u subject 

 which has 1> (.(. n SD far decided \>y the. poolio 

 opinion of tho State that I arn justified in say- 

 ing that if the constitutional amendment ia to 

 .opted, let it be done by tlie irresponsible 

 r of numbers, and let as preserve our own 

 spoct, and the respect of our posterity, 

 ising to bo the mean instrument of our 

 own shame." 



In the House the amendment was referred 

 to tho committee on Federal relations, who 

 made a report in December, unanimously 

 reeormnending its rejection. The proposition 

 to approve of the calling a national convention 

 was considered. One-half the committee, how- 

 ever, objected on the ground thut it could ac- 

 complish no good result, because it was ques- 

 tionable whether South Carolina's self-respect 

 would allow her to make suggestions to those 

 who denied her rights as a State under the 

 Constitution, and because it would be undig- 

 nified in the State to occupy seats in such a con- 

 vention, whilst her representatives, duly chosen, 

 were forbidden an entrance into Congress. 

 The other half of the committee were of opin- 

 ion that the State could not In her present con- 

 dition wisely suggest a direct course of action 

 to tho General Government, but that the 

 Legislature should express by resolutions their 

 willingness to go into a national convention 

 and discuss fully and freely the present sectional 

 difficulties. 



Resolutions were also reported affirming the 

 vrish of tho State that the internal affairs of the 

 nation might be so administered as to secure on 

 a liberal and permanent basis the rights of 

 every citizen, and to win back that fraternal 

 confidence of which tho cordial cooperation of 

 South Carolina in the results of tho war was a 

 pledge that she in good faith sought these dc- 

 aud to which that acquiescence entitled 

 her. 



The University of tho State has been in 

 operation, and contained during tho year sixty- 

 five students. Two professors are required for 

 the medical school, and one of law, to put 

 these departments in operation. A professor- 

 ship of modern languages is contemplated, and 

 a reduction of the board of trustees. 



The important section of the act conferring 

 civil rights on the negroes, as it passed the 

 Legislature, was as follows : 



JSe U enacted, etc., That all persons hitherto known 

 in law in this State OB slaves, or as free persona of 

 color, shall have the right to make and enforce con- 

 tracts, to sue, be sued, to be affiants and gi\ 

 dcnce, to inherit, to purchase, lease, sell, bold, con- 

 vey and assitrn real and personal properly, make 

 wills sod testaments, and to have full and equal ben- 

 efit of the rights of personal security, personal liberty, 

 and private property, and of all remedies uud pro- 

 ceedings for the enforcement and protection of the 



same, as white persons now bare, and abal) not b 



:>-"l to any other or different puniubment, pain, 

 r |.. unity, for the commission of any act or offence, 

 than MI -h an are prescribed for white pcrttoua com- 

 mitting like act* or oflences. 



The shipments of cotton to foreign ports from 

 tho port of Charleston for the year ending 

 August 81st, amounted to 58,807 be 

 were valued at $",797,672. Tho shipments 

 coastwise were 54,147 ba'es, valued at $7,625,- 

 888. Tho aggregate is 107,954 balen, and total 

 value $1 6,-428,080. This ia an unfavorable re- 

 sult when compared with any previous peace- 

 ful year of the last twenty -five. 



The abolition of slavery in the State has been 

 followed by a decline of the agricultural interest, 

 which has given more importance to manufac- 

 tures, and the subject has commanded greater 

 attention than ever before. A paper-mill at 

 Bath was run night and day on a fine class of 

 book-paper to fill Northern orders. The pro- 

 prietors of seven cotton-mills in the upper part 

 of the State, were engaged early in the year in 

 rebuilding and repairing tho old ones, and had 

 added another, which was put in thorough 

 working order. The factories at Batesville on 

 the Ennoree, at Crawfordsville on the middle 

 Tiger, and at Biviusville, were in operation 

 during the war, and at its close the worn-out 

 material was replaced with new and improved 

 machinery ready to be in full operation with 

 the new crop of the year. The Saluda factory 

 burned by General Sherman is reconstructed 

 with new machinery from the North. A fac- 

 tory at Vaucluse has been enlarged with new 

 machinery. Machinery is ordered in Europe to 

 improve and increase the production of the 

 Graniteville company. The largest manufac- 

 turing enterprise ever started in tho State was 

 complete before the new crop of cotton came 

 to market. It consists of one writing-paper 

 mill, one printing-paper mill, and one cotton 

 factory of twenty thousand spindles, and fivo 

 hundred looms. The machinery was of Eng- 

 lish manufacture. The location is on the same 

 stream as Vaucluse. ' 



By far the largest number, if not all tho 

 operatives employed in these various factories, 

 are natives of the surrounding country. White 

 people exclusively are employed. Negroes find 

 work in connection with the factories, but they 

 are not what are strictly called operatives. 



STOCKTON, ROBERT FIELD, born in 

 Princeton, N. J., in 1706 ; died Oct. 7, 1866. His 

 father, Richard Stockton, was an eminent 

 lawyer and a United States Senator. His grand- 

 father, Richard Stockton, was one of the sign- 

 ers of the Declaration of Independence. Robert 

 F. Stockton was educated at Nassau Hall, 

 which institution he loft without graduating, to 

 accept a midshipman's warrant in September, 

 1811. His first cruise was in the frigate Pres- 

 ident, under Commodore Rogers, rendering 

 efficient service during the War of 1812, and 

 was commissioned as a lieutenant, December 0, 

 1814. In the war against Algiers he occupied 



