Everyone would purchase negroes.

It was well known that those who dealt in this property would sell it at a very long credit.
Our citizens would purchase at all hazards and trust to fortunate crops and favorable markets for making their payments; and it would be found that South Carolina would in a few years, if this trade continued open, be in the same situation of debt, and subject to all misfortunes which that situation had produced, as at the close of the Revolutionary war." The newspaper closed its report of the speech by a concealment of its further burden: "The Hon.

member adduced in support of his opinion various other arguments, still more cogent and impressive, which from reasons very obvious we decline making public."[15] It may be surmised that the suppressed remarks dealt with the danger of slave revolts.

In the further course of the debate, "Mr.Smith said he would agree to put a stop to the importation of slaves, but he believed it impossible.

For this reason he would vote for the bill." The measure soon passed the Senate.
[Footnote 15: Charleston _Courier_, Dec.