But misfortune in other investments forced him next year to sell his land, slaves and crops to two immigrants from the Bahama Islands.

Thereupon, wrote he, "I composed the following valedictory, which breathes something of the tenderness of Ossian."[11] Callous history is not concerned in the farewell to his "sweet asylum," but only in the fact that he bought slaves in Virginia and carried them to Georgia.

A grand jury at Alexandria presented as a grievance in 1802, "the practice of persons coming from distant parts of the United States into this district for the purpose of purchasing slaves."[12] Such fugitive items as these make up the whole record of the trade in its early years, and indeed constitute the main body of data upon its career from first to last.
[Footnote 8: Unsigned MS.

draft in the Wisconsin Historical Society, Draper collection, printed in _Plantation and Frontier_, II, 55, 56.] [Footnote 9: La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, _Travels in the United States_, p.
592.] [Footnote 10: Charleston, S.C., _City Gazette_, Dec.

21, 1799.] [Footnote 11: Alexander Gregg, _History of the Old Cheraws_ (New York, 1877), pp.