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of receiving the elements of a sounder edu- 

 cation, in other respects, than Carolina could 

 afford,, he sent me while yet a boy to this 

 kingdom. 



In one of his views he was not disappointed. 

 For some time after I had returned to Carolina, 

 to pass a part of my youth under his immediate 

 care, a paper, called AN ASSOCIATION, having 

 been offered for signature to all the male in- 

 habitants of jCharlestown above sixteen years 

 of age, the subscribers to which bound them- 

 selves to obey implicitly certain authorities 

 unconnected with the former government of 

 the country, I was one of a very few who re- 

 fused to put their names to it. Those who had 

 now a legal controul over my conduct, my father 

 having shortly before fled from Chariest own to 

 avoid persecution, strongly urged my com- 

 pliance. They stated, among other things, 

 that many persons of the most undoubted 

 loyalty had signed the ASSOCIATION, and that 

 a continuance in my refusal would expose me 

 to the resentment of the populace. My answer 

 was, that men of established reputation might 

 conceive themselves entitled to a certain lati- 

 tude of conduct, to which I could not pretend, 

 who had yet a character to gain ; and that I 

 was therefore determined, whatever mightf be 



