The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-04-15


Carolina But it may Be that your CORES
| pondent meant 10 embrace the Northwes
tern and all the original free States. by
the term Northern or Yankee States il so
he is equally wide oflthe fact for there are
4 three times as many natives in those States
! from Virginia as from North Carolina,
and about twice as many from Tennessee,
ard largely more than as many from he
other Southern States.
He says, five times as many white folks
have gone North out of North Carolina as
ont Of Georgia, which has a larger pola.l;t-
tion than North Carolina has Ihi, comes
nearer to the fact than amy statement
| made by your correspondent, but this Is
nor accurate, for while II is true that
Georgia has a larger population than
] North Carolina, If you include colOred peO-
pie it is not true that She has as large
white population, as anyone may fnd BY
examining the census.
While 3,3s5 white natives have zone
from Georgia to the old States Of the
! North and only >, s01 from North Carol
Ma to those States, yet Of the people who
| have left North Carolina a much larger
proportion have gone 30 the North west
| than from Georgia-of the 5S 900 natives
/ of North Carolina who have gone from
North Carolina to the Northern North
western States II 900 have gone to India
Ma, Illinois and Missouri Your cores
| pOndent thinks a movement TO the South
| and West natural. Now ii is Il fact that
| there is not a Southern state on line with
| North Carolina or Southern State North
| of the Southern line of the State from
| which more people have not gone 20 the
| North and Northwest than from North
| Carolina; and this fact, upon his own View,
| answers all that he has said about the
| movement of population as showing intOl-
| erance in North Carolina.
But more people have gone from the
| Northern States 10 Georgia than to North
| Carolina, This is a wonderful truth but
! it proves nothing, except that they pre-
! ferred to go to Georgia, for, in proportion
! to population ten times as many people
| have gone from the Northern States TO
! Florida as to Georgia, and the people Of
| Georgia have gone in much larger mum
! bers to Alabama, Florida, Texas, MiSSss-
| ippi and Ar!,ansaS than from North Caro-
! lima. This ther proves that Georgia is an
| intolerant tate, nor that Florida, Ala
bama, Mis- sippi, Texas or Arkansas are
| more tolelt,t or free States. Il would be
! absurd to y that because more people
| have gone N Northern States to Florida
! than to Georgia. therefore Georgia is
intolerant State tits equally ridiculously
| absurd to say that because more North
|
North Carolina, therefore North Carolina
! is intoerant 1t is equal to the logical
| absurdity by which it is proved that a
| horse is an elephant. Proposition 1st \
horse cannot climb tree.
! Proposition 2nd. An elephant cannot
climb a tree. Conclusion. Therefore a
| horse is an elephant
More North CarOlinians have gone to the
| Northwest than Georgians, but not so many
as Virginians or Tennesseeans or kentuck-
! ians, and | can give your correspondent a
reason why more North Caroinians have
| gone to the Northwest than GeOrgians.
| First: Georgia is more Southern State
and her people would naturally go, as he
will admit, to the West and South of her.
Second: 1t is well known that before the
| war there was in parts of North Carolina
| a strong anti-slavery sentiment-suc us
| existed in no State South of us-a large
number of these people moved to Indiana
| and Illinois, because they did not wish to
| live in a slave State and the sentiment
| which carried them from North Carolina
would not, of course, permit them to go
to any slave State. Nearly or quite one
half of AL the natives who have gone to
the North from North Carolina are in
| those two States. They constituted colo
MES of excellent people, and many
of their kindred have followed them and
are among the best people III those States.
| | have known some of them, and | have
| been told that almost to a man, those who
| went from North Carolina and their des-
cendants retain their love for the Old
North State
Your correspondent doubtless thinks that
| North Carolina is an intoerant State-that
is a matter of opinion but there is not a fact
IN regard to the movement of population to
sustain such an opinion. IT IS NOT A GRA
| CIOUS THING TO TELL PEOPLE THEIR FAULTS
| EVEN WHEN THEY ARE REAL, But TO CHARGE
| THEM WITH FAULTS WHICH DO NOT EXIST,
! MAY BE WELL AND PROPERLY RESENTED,
| WITHOUT SUBJECTING ONE To THE CHARGE
| OF INTOLERANCE.
The correspondent says: The mere fact
that so many people have gone away does
not in itself prove intolerance, but the
fact that they have gone in such numbers
contrary to the natural movement of pop
ulation does prove my assertion. This
assertion is that the expelling cause is
the intolerance of opinion.
Now 293, 505 people have left North Car
olina (fewer, in population, than have left
Virginia, Georgia, or any of the old thir-
teen States except one and fewer, in pro
portion, than have left any Northern state
east Of the Mississippi except one)-of
those, 900, 600 in round numbers, were
white people. OF those white people about
$500, or one in seventy. have gone to the
Northwestern or Yankee States (feWer than
from Virginia, South Carolina or Georgia.
and about "a, 600 to the Northwestern
States, most of them to Missouri, Indiana
and Illinois and the others to tie South or
Southwest. According to your correspon-
dent, if they had all gone South or South
west it would have been natural and no
proof of his assertion, but the fact that
one in seventy has gone to some Yankee
State and one in four to Missouri or some
Northwestern States, does prove his asser-
ton.
Now | submit that his argument, fairly
stated, is this: Seventy men leave North
| Carolina. One in that number, from
choice interest or some other cause, goes
! to New York, Massachusetts or some other
Yankee States, instead of Texas. Ark 4nsas
or some other Southern or Southwestern
States, as most of the others have done
and this proves that ''the expelling cause
was intolerance OF Cpinion" an intoler
ance that not ony expelled him from
l North Carolina, but expelled him unnat
2 urally, to some Yankee State instead of tC
, some Southern or Southwestern States, t,
which, but for this eXpelling cause, i,
5 would naturally have gone, as the grea
: mass who were not expelled, naturally did
D When he made up his mind to leave Nortl
: Carolina if he concluded To go South O