| Title: | Letter from South Carolina [U.S.] |
|---|---|
| ID | 3902 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | 1781-90/27 |
| Year | 1785 |
| Sender | unknown |
| Sender Gender | unknown |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | S.Carolina, USA |
| Destination | Ireland |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | unknown |
| Relationship | re living in the USA |
| Source | The Belfast Mercury, no.41, vol.III, 20 December 1785, p.4, c.4 |
| Archive | The Linenhall Library, N. Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9407223 |
| Date | 04/09/1785 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 06:06:1994 |
| Word Count | 291 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Letter from South Carolina, Sept.4. I am now settled here in as good a situation as the state of this country will permit, which is much inferior to what I knew it once, before its seperation from you. The goods I brought with me from England lie on my hands now near [-----] months, not from the want of demand for the buyers are plenty, but cash is a rarity. The want of confidence between man and man has turned the word confidence into disuse. The remittances from France to the merchants and planters here are small proportions of paper securities negotiable in Europe, some Congress paper currency, and commodities inferior to the expectations of the receivers. The hats, shoes, and linens I brought with me are the only articles I can venture to convert to any use. The farmers barter the necessaries of life for them. All accounts from the Northern Provinces are nearly the same. Madness [-----ly?] seizes the number of unhappy people who are daily embarking for this land of misery from Great Britain and Ireland, employment cannot be found for the tenth part of them. They must colonize amongst themselves at the back of our settlements, necessity must exasperate them to desperation, which if happens, cannot but turn to anarchy the little influence Government has amongst [them?]. Though the turbulence of the emigrants makes their seclusion from the United States a very desirable object, yet we must me cautious not to incur their displeasure; the Coalition of the Indian nations on our rear would become doubly formidable by a junction with those people (who must speedily degenerate into barbarity) were their united wrath to fall upon us; our apprehensions are many and disagreeable; such is the effect of our independence. |
