. Lives of distinguished North Carolinians . ntolerable degradations of that unfortunate class of herpeople. I feel and acknowledge, as strongly as any man can, theinexorable necessity of keeping our slaves in a state of de-pendence and subservience to their masters. But when shoot-ing becomes necessary to prevent insolence and disobedience,it only serves to show the want of proper domestic rules, butit will never supply it; and never can a punishment like thiseffect any other purpose than to produce open conflicts orsecret assassinations. In adjusting the balance of this delicate subject, let
. Lives of distinguished North Carolinians . ntolerable degradations of that unfortunate class of herpeople. I feel and acknowledge, as strongly as any man can, theinexorable necessity of keeping our slaves in a state of de-pendence and subservience to their masters. But when shoot-ing becomes necessary to prevent insolence and disobedience,it only serves to show the want of proper domestic rules, butit will never supply it; and never can a punishment like thiseffect any other purpose than to produce open conflicts orsecret assassinations. In adjusting the balance of this delicate subject, let it not 412 LIVES OF DISTINGUISHED NOKTII CAROLINIANS. be believed tliat the great and imminent danger is in over-loading the scale of humanity. The courts must pass throughScylla and Charybdis; and they may be assured that the perilof shipwreck is not avoided, by shunning with distant steerage,the whirlpool of Northern fanaticism. That of the South isequally fatal. It may not be so visibly seen, but it is as deep,as wide, and as J. JOHNSTON PETTIGREW. JAMES JOHNSTON PETTIGREW. BY MRS. C. P. SPENCER. James Johnston Pettigrew, late a Brigadier-General in thearmy of the Confederate States, was born at Lake Scupper-nong, in Tyrrell county, North Carolina, upon the 4th dayof July, 1828. His family is of French extraction. At anearly period, however, one branch of it emigrated to Scotland,where it may be traced holding lands near Glasgow about theyear 1492. Afterwards a portion of it removed to the north-ern part of Ireland. Prom this place James Pettigrew, thegreat-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, about the year1732, came into Pennsylvania, and, some twenty years after-wards, into North Carolina. About 1770 this gentleman re-moved to South Carolina, leaving here, however, his sonCharles, who was a resident successively of the counties ofGranville, Chowan, and Tyrrell. Charles Pettigrew was sub-sequently the first Bishop-elect of the Protestant EpiscopalChurch
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