Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1858 — Free Sentiment in North Carolina. [ARTICLE]

Free Sentiment in North Carolina.

j FifJm a letter just received from a friend in North C arolina, the SI. Trouts Democrat. takes the following interesting passage: “I- was down in Raildolpft county list week, where I was horn. There are few j slayesl in that county, arid the sentiment a « ainst the “inst ituti'on” is heroin lug st rong|Or and stronger. The Wesleyan Methodists are quit u mi in e rolls a ml are g a ining strength, i Several years ago two of their preachers J were Compelled to leave the county, and 1 was told by a gentleman well acquainted with tin* facts and feelings of the peoplethat 'j the driving out ofi'those men had caused at j h'ast. d hundred families to leave the county. | and a like number have this (Guilford) I county for the same cause. J. A. Gilmer, our Congressman, took part iff the affair, and [lost, hundreds of votes thereby; »his course in Congyss—especially his speeches on the question^—has won thean all back. His motives in acting the lie | did were misunderstood hy the people. His intimate friends kne.v that he accompanied | the mob tor the sole purpose of preventing personal violence to the men, which no othor man in the country could have done. These things are interesting to me: they show that things “are working'’ in “old Rip.’* If the Republicans will nominate the right j man for President, and some'gooff conservaJ five man for \ ice, they will get a strong vote in this State. I Lully believe that if tho | question were now put to the people |of this State. • Slavery or no Slavery,* " i there would be a bCge vote agai ifft it. Mv v bunthgr own* abont $5,000 worju of “niggers;” don’t want to sell can't set | them free without a special act of the Leg- ; islature; isn't able to send, them to a free j State,and they are a dead expense to him tevery year. Hundreds of are in the i same fix.” | I Ovg” I'here is not a Republican, between ' Aroos-took and San who advocates a dissolution of the Unßn, while many j of tlic most prominent me mfce rs of the Dem- | oeratic party do so. Nor does it disqualify | them from association with that party. A man may be steeped up to his eyes in treason, and yet he an orthodox Pro-Slavery Democrat.— Alb,aUj livening Journal. Q£p-The artesian well at Lafayette, Indiana, now bored nearly through to China, throws up a stream of water averaging at least two hundred gallons per hour. 03” A mothers purityandgentlenesa refine the child’s heart and manners.