The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-04-15
4 REPLY TO Mr.. PAGE.
THERE is INTELLECT AL FREE
DOM IN NORTH CAROLINA.
Our Correspondent Shows by Facts and
Figures that the Native Population OF
North Carolina stays at Home.
Especial Cor STATE CHRONIC

APRIL 10, 1886 Your New York cor
respondent persists in the damaging charge
/ tuot dangerous charge a the types made
my last letter call it, that North Carolina
/ IS an IntOlerant state, aud | trust you Will
! excuse me for again referring - lt. lie
seems not to like my anonymous way. but
i If my facts are correctly stated and my
conclusions fair and just, think the pub
! lie will care very little for my name and
! have no vanity in the matter, so he must
/ excuse me for not caring to see my name
! in print: it is only with the facts and the
argument that the public is concerned
| Your correspondent says misstated hi,
argument. | certainly did not mean TO DO
| so and what did say was this: 'fle
| quotes census statistics to show that 293,
! sos North Carolinians are in other States
and explains why. Says be: why do they
| go there? There is but one explanation
! left. There is an intolerance III North
Carolina that is oppressive. ," | give his
| exact language, and really supposed that
/ he gave as evidence Of intolerance in
! North Carolina the fact that 293, 500 ma
| tves Of North Carolina were III other
! States, and that the fact was stated to
! show this Intolerance. Now it seems from
! his last letter that | was mistaken in this
and | am glad to give his correction N his
! own words: ''But what | wrote was this =
after stating the number of people who had
/ gone away and after saying distinctly that
those who went to Georgia, to Tennessee
and to other Southern and South western
States represented a perfectly natural
movement in population, after saying all
! this, | then pointed out the fact that as
many white people had gone from North
| Carolina to Northern and Northeastern
! States yankee States as we call them as
| have gone to those States from all the
| other Southern States put together except
/ those that lie on the border. Five times
as many white folks have gone North out
| Of North Carolina as out of Georgia, which
has larger population than North Ca1o
lima has
OF course | accept most thankfully this
| correction and tru st [ shall be pardoned
/ for the mistake as | did not find it so
WRITTEN in his first letter. | supposed, in
my simplicity, that when your correspon-
! dent referred to my letter "about popula
! ton as being interesting FOR IT'S Err
| RORS, he meant to charge some error in
my statement of facts ''about population
or that he had found some error in my
! figures, but | never dreamed that | was in
error in supposing that he meant to state
/ the fact that 293, 505 North Carolinians
were in other States as evidence to show
4 the States intolerance. | did 50 under
stand but cheerfully acknowledge my
mistake, though if he did not mean that, |
am equally free to confess my inability to
+ know what he did mean. As this is the
only error pointed out, take it that
was correct in my other statements, and
/ all is made clear by his last letter, as to
/ what he did mean. 1t was the unnatural
+ movement If s.WHITE FOLKS from North
4 Carolina to the NoHTHwARD that was
/ meant-it was this that required explana
! tiOn-there is some EXPELLING cause and,
I give his exact language again (for must
| be particular and not again commit the
mistake of supposing that it is intended
! as an argument or as ev'dence)-"Ihat
! eXpelling cause is the intolerance of opln-
! ion" He is very kind and ASKS me to eN-
/ plain ''our unnatural Northward move
| lnent Of pOpulation." 1t gives me pleasure
to give an explanation full and satlsfac-
tory | hope, and the explanation is that
there is not a particle of foundation, as
the facts and figures will show, for the
| statements of your correspondent. |
warned your respondent against APP
pealing to facts and figures. Now let US
/ see what the facts are. We are talking
about ''WHITE FOLKS" now. In the first
place 293, 505 WHITE people have never
left North Carolna-nearly 100, 900 of the
number were colored people who ExoDUsT-
ED to Indiana to meet the emergency of
| political knaves.
| There are in the United States q give
round numbers) / ,029, 900 ''wHITE FOLKS, "
| born in North Carolina, of these 1 1,037
are living in New York, .3 in Connectl
cut, % in Maine, 2S6 in Massachusetts, 26
in New Hampshire, 35S in New Jersey, A
| in Rhode Island, $50 in Pennsylvania, and
80 in Vermont, making 2,S21. Now in
! each one of these States, except PennSyl-
vania and Vermont there are, in proper
TO- lott
pie from Georgia than from North Carroll
ma. There are, in the United States, 933.
600 WHITE people born in Georgia of these
26} are in Connecticut, SO in Maine, 3,3
| in Massachusetts,, 80 in New Hampshire,
3SS in New Jersey. 1 1,631 in New York,
sos in Pennsylvania, 80 in Rhode Island
and 26 in Vermont-making 1915. We're
these WHITE people ''expelled" from Geor-
gia to these Yankee States, SO called, by
intolerance? Georgia is great State and
a great many more white people have gone
from North Carolina to Georgia than have
come from that State to North Carolina,
but then more white people have left Geor-
gia than have left North Carolina, and more
have gone to the so called Yankee States
from Georgia than from North Carolina.
There are in the United States 501 900
white people born in South Carolina, of
these lbs have come to this terribly in
| tolerant State and of the ,029, 600 white
natives Of North Carolina only 10, 415 have
gone to South Carolina, that is for every
white person '1EXPELLED' by intolerance
to South Carolina, two have been tempted
from that State to this. Again there are
living in Connecticut 224, born in South
Carolina, 53 in Maine, 401 in Massachusetts,
% in New Hampshire, AL in New Jersey,
! 1874 in New York, go in Pennsylvania,
=, in Rhode Island, and Is in Vermont
making 3,119 or more than twice as many,
in proportion to population, as have been
EXPELLED from North Carolina.
, Virginia has 1, PA, 600 native white peo-
!, pie in the United States, of these 595 are
: in Connecticut, 195 in Maine, 1871 il
!. Massachusetts, 130 in New Hampshire 1 ;,
: $50 in New Jersey. 5,203 in New York
1O,OSS in Pennsylvania, 200 in Rhode Is
land, and So in Nermont-more than sever
times as many native whites have gone
from Virginia to these Yankee States, 81
called. than from North Carolina.
5 These facts do not show that there i
t any intolerance in Georgia, or South Caro-
5 lima, or Virginia, but they are simply givel
: to show that your correspondent has got
!. ten his facts all wrong. But your CORES
pondent says that as many white peopl
had gone from North Carolina to Northern
e and North eastern States yankee States
. as we call them) as have gone to thos
= | all bo SoutharD State