The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-09-25

ing home for themselves or family, in a free
territory.
Cd. The emigration of Cardinals TO free
States, especially into Ohio and Indiana.
The general impression is, that Carolinian
rarely moves TO the free States. We thought so.
But any one who travels little will find, that
this is great mistake. We know hundreds Of
farmers in them who once worked slaves" in
the Palmetto State. We know in our sister city
Of Cincinnati, and near it, some twenty families
who were all born and reared there. But this
is the smallest part Of the mstter. by going TO
Greene county, Ohio, we shall meet hundreds
of Carolnians; and near Brookville. Franklin,
the Walnut Ridge neighborhood, Washington,
and in Decatur aud Rush counties, Indiana,
there are still larger settlements composed of
natives of Lsurens, York, Spartanburg, and
the region thereabout. The majority of these
men were Shareholders; about a third, we
should suppose from our enquiries. owned
slaves Their place Of residence proclaims nh,
they are in free States. 1t was slavery tina,
drove them away from their native land, and
nothing else.
3D. These investpents and removals have
been chiefly made within the last fifteen years
This is singular fact, and one hereafter that
We may enlarge upon-for il is important as
well as singular. The distinguished ultras OF
South Carolina have been most active for slave
ry within this period. At Washington-in
South Carolina-lcgislstively and socislly-they
have used every means TO concentrate public
| opinion in the South, and to put a bar forever
between Southern men, and the ''anti-slavery
spirit" The pulpit has hushei every conscien.
| tons enquiry, or else Numbered forth it, clio.
qucnce in defence Of human servitude as di.
vine institution. The Legislature has braved
the L MON. and defied the States, in caring en-
deavor TO make that IAe element of Republican
ism. Society, collecting and banding together
its strength. has thralled every thing like free
thought, as il threatened social death to any
man &ho should lisp word against slavery
Yet amid this outspoken and united 6espotisu
amid the Sunday stiffness which il kept, and
which NO hardy spirit ventured TO break-the
removal of persons and property to the free
States has been more extended than il ever was
before. The conscientious left tyranny they
could not brook. The timid fled an evil they
dared not encounter. The money-loving es-
capped future they feared to look at, much more
TO meet. And thousands of Carolinians, thus,
have found, thousands more are finding q
new home upon a free soil.
1. The vote in Alabama ani Georgia on the
uhife basis. Whenever this question is brought
up, it involves, in a modified form, the question
Of slavery. Non-slaveholders, and all who are
sion offers, for simple white basis,--that is,
against considering negroes property, or al
lowing those who hold them, 10 have, in conse-
quence, any increased political power In
Georgia, the white basis was near being carried,
when the constitution was adopted, and in Ala.
banla, when the question was submitted, 1.-The
minority in its favor" as leading statesman in
that State said, twas awfully large" This is
significant The act means what it declares on
its face. Ii may be explained away: curious
reasons may be assigned, such as, "policy Of
wealth" .hatred TO large Shareholders" ..the
Individual love of equality in the white" but it
Is opposition TO slavery, and nothing more nor
less. Give the men who so vote a free opportu-
nifty 10 do-let them know that they can act out
the vote so given-and Southern ant-saverv
party would exist in the South an hundred times
more effective than any out Of it
IL will not DO, then. for these able perpetual
lists 10 confine their attention 10 "A bolitionisn"
or the political action Of the Wing or Demo-
cratic psrties,' in the free States. An "Anti-
Slavery spirit" entirely distinct from either
independent, wholly home born, and home in
largely in Missouri. Kentucky,
Tennessee, Virginia. Maryland, North Carolina,
and, as We have shown. in the Palmetto region
itself. The Committee on Federal Relations.
in the Alabama Legislature admitted this fact as
regards the first six States named, and advised,
two wears ago, that slavery should he kept
within these states, having side nifty ofinter-
est, and wishing TO perpetuate the Institution"
ana, for this end proposed, to stop the intersia-
al slave trade, pass laws against NONRESIDENT
oroprietors who would make the State one negro
quarter, and keep out negroes, from Mary
and, Kentucky and Virginia, &c, affirming that
'the more northern slaveholding States are al
ready seriously agitating emancipation" and
that ''in very few years at fsrthest, the aues.
lion will be submitted TO the people at the polls.
and be decided by them afirnatiyely.'' Thiscom-
nttee did not speak unadvisedIy. Its Chair
man, p. w. krrTEREL, knows well the public
sentiment Of Tennessee, Virginia, and Mary
and, and, being large stakeholder, could say
how far his brethren in these States, desired or
meant to go, in the future. II our friends, the
'erpetualsts, therefore, not satisfied with the
evidence We offer on this point, they will at least,
'dmit that Of the Alabama Legislature.
Having thus, we believe, established, what
We set out to prove, viz: that the "Anti Slavery
Pirit' and its "rapid progress are not confined
o the Free States. we purpose. hereafter, to en-
Iuire, calmly, what influence the perpetualist SITS
AVE exerted in extending "this spirit" and ac-
eierating sits rapid progress" We may err;
ut We think they have had more TO do with this
han their friends imagine, or they themselves
rould admit.
Psb1Se 1asaracstou.
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