446, which varies from the present one, was derived from a paraphrase by John Laurens to whom the original was written.
Cf.

_South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine_, X.49.

For related items in the Laurens correspondence _see_ D.D.Wallace, _Life of Henry Laurens_, pp.

445, 447-455.] In North Carolina the prevailing lack of enterprise in public affairs had no exception in regard to slavery.

The Quakers alone condemned it.