Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-08-13
cRowpING THE MoURNERs.

The slaves of the South must be getting
rather crowded. Thousands were taken
from Kentucky to Tennessee for fear of
our armies; and when the army entered
Tennessee, tens of thousands were driven
down into the cotton states. When again
our armies began operating on the Yazoo
and along the Western rim of Mississippi
the planters of that great cotton and
3 slave state felt their negro property was
endangered, and sent them into the inte-
g rior of the state. But after the fall of
avicksburg and the capture of the State
Capitol, it was seen that no part of Mis-
sissippi was safe from abolition influence,
and the rebels began crowding the slaves
eastward into Alabama and Georgia.
While this has been going on in the
West, the same thing has been going on
to some extent in the East; not, however,
to as great extent, for the reason that our
territorial gains in the East have been
very limited. But many of the Virginia
planters felt that, while there was such a
contingency possible as defeat for the reb-
Ell army Of Lee, their slaves were not al
together safe; and SO during the last two
years, many thousands have been driven
down to the Carolnas and Georgia. Those
on the coast of North Carolina, again,
have been driven into the interior; and
our possession of the densest slave region
of the South, the sea margin of South
Carolina and Georgia, forced the heavy
planters there to take their slaves up coun-
try. So, and for the same reason, the
slaves have forcibly evacuated great
part of Florida.
We believe, that of all the slaves Of
the eight rebel states this side of the
Mississippi River, nine-tenths are to-day
in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama.
The telegraph brings from Memphis the
statement that the removal of the slaves
from Mississippi into Alabama and Geor-
gia has been carried to such extent that
the governors Of those states have issued
proclamations forbiddipg their further
introduction, and Johnston's pickets are
said to have turned large number bach"
1t is really very serious question for
these states; and the quandary they arc
in is one out of which We cannot help
them. If on the one hand, they do not
call in their slaves the continuous extern
sion of our army lines will disenthrall
them and on the other hand. the crowd
ing Of such vast mass Of blacks into a
small space, and that denuded of able
bodied whites, is not a very safe or pleas
ant experiment. The greater part Of
these slaves have learned by this time
that the which war ragse around them,
and driving them from one place to an
other, has something to do with their free
dom. al PIP |i.l-..-
1t difficult to give any advice to the
rebel governors and generals in the prem.
ises-and particularly when it is consid-
cred that we have have Union military
force operating in Northern Alabama, and
that another force, under Gen. Heron, is
said to be marchinsfor Mobile, in South
crn Alabama, which in turn, will flank
all the negroes as well as rebels in Mis-
sissippi. and compel also the Alabama
slaves to push for Georgia or submit to
military emancipation. Each Of these
three. Mississippi, Alabama and
Georgia-bcfore the opening Of the war,
had about the same number of slaves
each nearly half million--considering
the number that has been driven down
into them from the North. they must al
together have population of blacks ex.
ceeding a million and half. When all
Of these are crowded into the space be.
tween the Alabama and Savannah rivers,
the blacks will out number the whites as
three to one. Of the two evils. it is pos
sible that Johnston. Shorter and Brown
have chosen the last.--M Y. Times.