The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-10-28
EMIGRATION FROM STATE TO STATE.

ject in an exchange accredited to the Boston
Post. We are surprised that men so intelli'
gent as the editors of the Post should have
fallen into such palpable blunders; and, as the
article, in it's circuit of the country press, is
calculated to produce false impressions upon
the public mind, ve have thought proper to
notice it. 1t is a. follows:
According to the returns of the last United
States census, there are more natives of the
Southern States residing in the North in pro.
portion 10 the 6oushcrn population than of
the Northerners who live in the South. We
think the general opinion is the reverse of this.
Ia Maine there are 70 be found 3,092 persons
Who we're Boutherners by birth whereas in
Mississippi there are but $50 natives of the
Northern States. The ismsllness of the number
of New Eoglshders in the South 10 quite re-
msrksbse; and We think that the largeness of
the number Of natives Of Che South 10 be found
in New England viii quite astonish those who
have not examined the subject, For example,
there are 27l natives of Virginia residing in
Maine, and only "a natives of Maine in Virgin
10. The whole number Of natives of New EGG.
land residing in Mississippi is ia, while there
are l,023 natives of Mississippi residing in New
England. These are examples of the state of
things on Q wide scale. -''~' -
"Iu looking over all the free States, We find
that Massachusetts has 1852 natives of the
South, while New York has about 10000.
Other Northern States that have large numbers
of Southern.born Inhabitants are Pennsylvanis,
Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana.
"A few facts will show that Southern men EN-.
igrate much from one State to another in their
own section OF the inhabitants of Virginia,
| II 900 we're natives of North Carolina, and as
many of Alabama, $4,000 of Tennessee, and
$4,000 Of Kentucky. TO people North Carroll
ma, there came $4,000 from Geol gia, $4,000
from Alabama, $4,000 from Tennessee, and
$4,000 from Kentucky. As general law, the
emigration flows westward from State to State
on the parallels of latitude. For example, EN-.
isrants from England find their new homes in
New York, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois,
and Ohio, while the Georgian seeks an adopted
home in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and
Texas, and yet we find many exceptions to this
law. 1t was, perhaps, owing in part to this
general tendency OF emigration in this country
that it flowed rather more naturally into Kan
sas from the free than from the slave States"
The absurdity of these statements is apIa.
rent to the mind of any one familiar with the
census, or with the actual state of things in the
country. The idea that Virginia has derived
$4,000 of her population from Tennessee and
$4,000 from Kentucky, would not be credited
by the common sense of the most illiterate
classes of those States. The fact lie just there
verse and the figures quoted show the number
of natives of Virginia who resided in Tennessee
and Kentucky in 1850. This error of reversing
the table, and locking at it from the wrong
point of view, runs through the entire article.
For instance, it is stated that there are in Maine
number is only 1856; and in Mississippi, it ia
stated there are but ESQ natives of the free
States, when the true number is 4,5l7. Massa
chusetts, says the Posi-, has 1852 natives of the
South, and New York about 10000. The fact
is, that the former contains only 2,977 Southern
ers, and the latter l2;625.
The writer's utter ignorance of the subject il
presented in its most ludicrous point of view by
the following statement, which we quote in his
own language:
"To people North Carolina, there came
81, 1000 from Georgia, $4,000 from Alabama,
| $4,000 from Tennessee, and Ia 900 from Ken.
lucky"
This remin DIS us of Prentice's reading CT the
lines from Shakespeare
{" How sharper than the serpents thanks
! Is the toothless child"
Following up the statements of the Post, from
tbs saWs jRysStsS point af xisE xss shQaald JhsEe
| Indeed, it could be made manifest that Virgin.
ia and North Carolina have been peopled from
Tennessee, Kentucky, and the Southwest, and
that New England, New York, and Pennsylva.
MIA were colonized from Ohio and Indiana. For
| if North Carolina contained $4,000 natives oil
Tennessee in 1850, the table would show tina,
Tennessee contained only 202s natives of North
Carolina; and in like manner it would appear
that Pennsylvania contained zoo, 900 natives OF
Ohio, while the latter held only 1923 native
Pennsylvanians.
The Hon. F. w. Pickens, our Minister to
| Russia, writes sl..a. $685. at
81 have consuls under my jurisdiction through
Asia as we'll as in Europe, and their reports
and accounts to me bring me into official com.
munication with q large portion of the globe.
had no idea that the actual business of this
| Office was as extensive and important a. It is.
We have large American merchant houses in
more numerous than those of any other nation
except Great Britain. Thirteen ships arrived
this season, direct from. Charleston and New
| Orleans, loaded 9th cotton, without having
touched at Liverpool at all, a. has heretofore
been the case The direct trade must increase
| every year. Manufactures in cotton are in
creasinx immensely shout Moscow and one
may see loads of cotton here every day in the
streets, passing to the railroad for that point.
| VIRGINIA PoLIr1cs-A correspondent Of the
N. Y Times says that 'Ex.Gov. Smith, of Va,
is to be superseded in Congress BY some other
/ Democrat: ssr Ht.
at is fully sscertaned that the nominee will
be either Henry Shaskelford, known a. the Red
Republican of the Piedmont district or W. II.
| Payne, the Commonwealth Attorney for the
county of Fauquier. smith i extremely OBJ
noxious to many influential Democrats in biz
district; aud lately he seems to have fallen into
disrepute with the Wings, from whose ranks be
hoped to obtain oounterbalance for the disaf
fected among his own party. he has forfeited
the confidence of the best and truest among hi
own party, since his utilization with Know Moth
tinism in 1855. A letter of his, agreeing to &C
cept the Know Nothing nomination for Gov
ernor at that time, should he be favored with 1t
| is in existence, and will probably be published
before the period for the nomination in his dis
trict arrives. Convention or no Convention, i
is said be will run, in which event Democratic
ascendency in the district will be jeopardized.'
Gov. Wise, this correspondent says, will tax,
the stump for antiL scomptonism, after hi
Gubsrhatorial term expires. The race for
Democratic nominee for Governor is run be
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