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THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE SINCE THE SETTLEMENT OF
THE COUNTRY.

Facts are stubborn things.—SHAKSPEARE.

BY A SOUTH-CAROLINIAN.

CHARLESTON:

PRINTED BY A. E. MILLER,
No. 4, Broad street.

1822.

District of South-Carolina, to wit :

SEAL.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-ninth day of October, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, and in the forty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Edwin C. Holland, Esq. dé posited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author and proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

"A Refutation of the Calumnies circulated against the Southern and Western States, respecting the institution and existence of Slavery among them. To which is added, a minute and particular account of the actual state and condition of their Negro Population. Together with Historical Notices of all the Insurrections that have taken place since the Settlement of the Country. -Facts are stubborn things.-Shakspeare. By a South-Carolinian."

In conformity with the act of Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned," and also to the act entitled "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, 'An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned', and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints."

JAMES JERVEY,

Clerk of the District of South-Caroliną.

TO

The Honorable

THE MEMBERS OF THE SENATE

AND

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF

SOUTH-CAROLINA,

AND THE HONORABLE

The Members of the City Council of Charleston,

THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE VERY RESPECTFULLY

DEDICATED

BY THEIR FELLOW-CITIZEN,

THE AUTHOR.

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