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South Carolina, had it not been for the migra-
tion of vigorous young men from the poor and
middle classes of the North. The schools of
the South have been taught from the beginning
by Yankee school masters, who have "made a
raise" as pedagogues, and stepped into the
professions or the proprietorship of plantations.
In this easy adaptation to Southern society,
we have got to hear of them being troubled
by scruples of conscience. I believe nearly all
the moving spirits of the South, were originally
from New England; and of all I have known,
who have progressed above the institution,
emancipated their slaves and come North, there
is not one who was born and educated at the
North! The most of such friends of free-
dom are Quakers from North Carolina and Vir-
ginia, whose abolitionism grew out of a clear
apprehension of the moral truths which are sa-
crificed at the shrine of Moloch. Why this re-
proach against the North? Evidently, because
in our schools, colleges, and churches, the first
principles of morality and righteousness have
not been taught. I have no doubt that some of
greatest despots of the South were born
and educated in abolition or free soil families,
and that many such families are destined to
send Southward, many who are to be the great
planters and statesmen of the next generation!

But from what cause proceeds our ineffi-
cient system of moral development? Evident-
ly, in my apprehension, from the want of a con-
sistent system of morals, growing out of their
rights and duties of men; while they at the
South trample Liberty under foot, or at the
North, rob every poor man and woman of the
natural right to the bounties of Providence,
without which neither life can be sustained, lib-
erty enjoyed, nor happiness pursued. Land
monopoly was the first outrage against human-