The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-04-28

DepoPsiaties-south Carolina.
The GresnsborOugh, Alabama, Beacon, con-
tsins notice of kind of emigration which is
becoming very common In the older slave States
Of our eonfedsracy. That paper says:
"As unusually large number of movers have
passed through this village within the past two
or three weeks On one day Of last w eek, up
wards Of thirty wagons and other vehicles be-
longing TO emigrants, mostly from Georgia and
South Carolina, passed through on their way.
most of them bound TO Texas and Arkansas.
There = not one Of the older slave States in
which a similar process is not going or. Even
in Kentucky, which is by far the most desirable
slave Stale in the Union, il il by no means nm
common to ses a nOn-slsvehOlding farmer, or
the proprietor Of very few slaves, bad fare
well 10 the place Of his nativity. to the home
around which all the hottest and most touchIng
reniniseences Of childhood cluster, and with
MS VILE and children, start of in quest Of a new
nome among strangers beyond the Ohio or the
Mississippi. Ii is not, as Is well known, on ac-
count Of the density Of the population in The
slave States that this emigration from them
taxes place. Land is cheap and abundant, and
population Is sparse in ali the slave States, and
therefore the reason why there is SO much ami
e'auon from them must be sought in another
direction. The true reason IL that there "A ,yres,
difheulty experienced in getting along. and.
from the hope of bsttering fhslr condition in
newer States springs the impulse that leads 80
many from the older slave States. A large mum.
Der Of these e1aigrants shape their course 20
the free States, because they have experienced
me disadvantages, discomforts, and unqualified
evils which are everywhere associated with sIa.
very, and wish to place their families beyond
ine reach 81 the PernicIous influences Of IN.
system.
Inc South Csrolinians who emigrats TO Tex
a. 60 thither to try their fortunes on a yirein
son. soil as yet unexhsusted by the gasteful
enects OF slave culture. There they design 20
carry on system Of culture in al respects
similar TO that which has brought blight and
desolation on the fields Of Virginia and the
CsrOlinss, fields which were once as fertile and
a. beautiful a. are now those Of Texas. But
for q few years the native qualities of the coil
Will resist the blight Of slave tilIage, and the
emigrant will live easier and far more comfort
able than he did on the blIghted land Of his ma
tirity.
They are talking much and eloquenty in the |
Southern States Of a change in the pursuits of
Industry, &c II anything like renovation Is
Prsetiesbls as long the system Of slavery.
which withen everything Il touches, is con. |
unued. For forty years past the people In
those portions Of the slavshOIding States which
have exPerisnced mcst thoroughly the maligu
innuenees Of slavery, have been sndesvoring
10 discover some method of escape from the
evils from which they have suffered so deeply.
They have talked Of changing their methods of
culture and Of introducing new kinds Of in
dustry, with as much feror as the men Of the
present day in the Southern States talk; and
yet nothing has been accomplished. and the
South still lsnguishes under the weight of the
intolsrsbls incubus Of negro slavery.
There 10 at presents great deal said in favor
OF manufacturing with slave labor in the South.
Many articles are published in newspapers and
magazines, designed to prove that it is both
the duty and the policy Of the slave States to
embark In Manufactures The most tempting
results are addressed TO the svsricious capital
lists, who are assured that opulencs must speed
ny follow the establishment of factories in the
South. There can be no doubt that if there
were manufacturing establishments in the
'lsvsholding ststes--K the eotton-grower and
sotton-spinnsr were brought together in the
'sne nsighborhood-snd II these factories I
could be well sustained by slave labor, a large
profit woudnecssssrily result. The ..aost profit
,bls cotton factory in the South 10, we believe,
N Granitevilie, Georgia, and In that establish,
nsnt slave labor is not employed. The propri-
'tos prefer the labor Of free white hands to 4
hat Of slaves, because experiences convinces \
hem that IL IL more profitable. Some factories +,
which slaves are employed are said TO yield V
rood profits. But there is, as Judge Heyden- :,
cit OF Alabsms says, rooted aversion at the ,,
south TO Innovations upon long established n
'abits The Southern planters are not enter J,
rising and DO lot wish 10 embark in any new
sr'aits' Convince them ever 80 thoroughly n,
4 the profits that must follow manufasturIag. :,
nd they viii yet adhere to the customs of their
athens and cultivate cotton and cannot be in.
uced TO manufacturs Il.
South Carolina affords q striking eommepta- a
on the doctrine which FIRST sprung, we be. =,
eve, from the Ingenious brain Of Mr.. ElwoOd :,
'ishsr, namely, that community is most pros -
sfous In which the individual average Of wealth ~
} highest Now, take South Carolina and sp- I,
W this issi 70 her, and she IL proved to be in 4.
. eminenay ProePefous condition. Here is =.
as process, and u IL precisely similar to that ~