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In 1830,South Carolina had a population of
581,185 souls;Connecticut,297,675. In 1836,
South Carolina had 364 ministers ; Connecticut,
498.
In 1834, there were in the slave states but
82,532 scholars in the Sunday-schools ; in the free
states,504,835; in the singleState of New York,
161,768.
as I am inclined to go Westward, where I can
The fact of constant emigrationfrom
enjoyreligious liberty, and have my family
slavestates is alsoshown by such in a
extracts free country. Mobocracyhas the ascendency
from papers
as the following, from the here,and there is no law. Brother Wilson had
an
Raleigh (N. C.) Register,quotedin the appointment on LibertyHill,on Sabbath,24th
inst. The mob came armed,
columns of the National Era accordingto mob
:
law,and commenced operations on the meetinghouse.
They knocked allthe
THEV WILL LEAVE NORTH CAROLINA.
weather-boarding off,
destroying doors,windows,pulpit,
Our attention was arrested, on Saturdaylast,
and benches ;
byquite a long train of and I have no idea that,if the mob was to kill a
wagons, windingthrough
Wesleyan,
our streets,which, upon inquiry, we found to belong
or one of their friends, that theywould
be hung.
to a partyemigratingfrom Wayne county, "
There is more movingthis fallto the far West
in this state,to the " far West." This is but a
repetition of many similar scenes that we and
others have witnessed duringthe past few years ;
and such spectacles will be still more frequently
witnessed,unless somethingis done to retrieve
our fallen fortunes at home.
If there be any
one "consummation devoutly
a desolate region, it may be,and finds that he can
indulgein his feelings of local attachment only at
the risk of starvation.
How are the older states of the South to keep
their population ? We say nothingof an increase
,
but how are theyto hold their own ? It is useless
to talk about strictconstruction,
Oct. 2,1851,also ịs the following article,
by itseditor :
STAND YOUR GROUND.
A citizenof Guilford county, N. C, in a letter
to the True Wesleyan,dated August20th,1851,
writers :
"
You may discontinue my paper forthe present,
than was ever known in one
year. Peopledo not
like to be made slaves,and theyare determined
to go where it is no crime to pleadthe cause of
the poor and oppressed.They have become
alarmed at seeing the laws of God trampledunder
foot with impunity, and that țoo, by legislators,
sworn officersof the
to be wished " in our policy, it is that peace,
and professors
religion.
our
young
And even ministers (socalled)
men should remain at home, and not abandon
are justifying
mobocracy. They think that such a course
theirnative state. From the earlysettlement of
North Carolinațhe great drain upon her of conduct will lead to a dissolutionof the Union,
prosperity
has been the spirit of and then every
man will have to fightin defence
emigration, which
of slavery, or be killed. This is an awful state
has so prejudicially affectedall the states of the
of things,and,if the people
South. Her sons, hitherto neglected (ifwe must
were destitute of the
Bible,and the various means of information which
say it) by an unparentalgovernment, have
wended their way, by hundreds theypossess,
upon hundreds,
there might be some hopeof reform.
But there is but littlehope,
from the land of their that fathers," land,too, under existing circumstances."
to
make it a paradise, wantingnothingbut a market,
bury their bones in the land of We hope
strangers.
the writer willreconsider his purpose.
We firmly believe that this In his section of North Carolina there are very
emigrationis caused
by the laggardpolicyof our people on the many anti-slavery men, and the majorityof the
subject
of internal improvement, for man is peoplehave not no interest in what is called slave
prone property.
by nature to desert the home of his affections.
Let them stand their ground, and
maintain the rightof free discussion. How is
the
The editorof the Era also quotesthe following
despotism of Slavery to be put down, if those
opposed
from the Greensboro (Ala.)Beacon to it abandon their rights, and fleetheir
:
country? Let them do as the idomitable Clay
does in Kentucky,
"
An unusuallylargenumber of movers have
and theywill make themselves
passedthrough this village, within the pasttwo
or three weeks. On one day of last week, upwards
The following isquoted,without comment,
of thirty wagons and other vehicles belonging
in the National Era, in 1851,from the columns
to emigrants, mostly from Georgi and South
Carolina,passedthrough on their way, most of
them bound to Texas and Arkansas."
FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN GEORGIA.
This tide of emigration does not emanate from
an overflowing populationṾery far from it.
S Warrenton (Get.),
Rather it marks an abandonment of a soil which,
} Thursday,July 10,1851.
exhausted by injudicious culture,will no longer This day the citizens of the town and county
repay the labor of tillage Ṭhe emigrant, turningmet in the court-house at eighto'clock,A. M. On
his back upon the homes of his childhood* leaves
of the AugustaRepublic(Georgia)-.
motion,Thomas F. Parsons,Esq.,was called to
the chair,and Mr. Wm. H. Pilcher requested to
act as secretary.
The objectof the meeting was stated by the
chairman,as follows :
Whereas,our community
has been thrown into
confusion by the presence among us of one
state rights, Nathan Bird Watson, who hails from New Haven
or Wilmot Provisos. Of what avail can such (Conn.),and who has been promulgating abolition
things be to a sterile desert, upon which peoplesentiments,publicly and privately, among our
"
cannot subsist?
people, sentiments at war with our institutions,
and intolerable in a slave and also
community,"
In the columns of the National Era, been detected in visiting suspicious negro houses,