In complying with the objects of the above Resolution, I have not
been insensible to the difficulties and embarrassments necessarily
incident to the subject, as to what it might be politic either to
publish or suppress. With the advice, however, of the Corporation, I
have deemed a full publication of the prominent circumstances of the
late commotion the most judicious course, as suppression might
assume the appearance of timidity or injustice. Whilst such a
Statement is due to the character of our community, and
justification of our laws, there can be no harm in the salutary
inculcation of one lesson, among a _certain_ portion of our
population, that there is nothing they are bad enough to do, that we
are not powerful enough to punish.
J. HAMILTON, jun. _Intendant_,
_Charleston, August_ 16th, 1822.