convention of North Carolina on a proposition to submit the
ordinance of secession to a vote of the people, received
thirty-four yeas to seventy-three nays. I have confidence that
those thirty-four names, representing one-third of the State, were
given by delegates from the western counties,--the Alleghany
counties,--from the base and sides of the Blue Ridge,--from a land
of corn and cattle, not of cotton. Again, when the news of the
capture of Hatteras was announced in the legislature of North
Carolina, it is evident from the language of the Raleigh
newspapers that an irrepressible explosion of Union feeling--even
to an outburst of cheers, according to one statement--occurred.
Nor is such a state of feeling surprising, when we remember that
not even in Kentucky is the memory of Henry Clay more a fireside
treasure of the people. In this respect, the quiet, unobtrusive
'North' State was in striking contrast to its immediate
neighbors--South Carolina in one direction, and Atlantic Virginia
in the other. Politically, when the pennons of Clay and Calhoun
rode the gale, the vote and voice of North Carolina were ever
given for the great Kentucky leader. Let us accept these omens for
the winter campaign, which will open with the triumph of the Union
and the Constitution on the Cumberland heights of East Tennessee.

'In one-fifth of Georgia, over an area of 12,000 square miles, slavery
only exists by the usurpation of the cotton aristocracy of the lowland
districts of the State.' In all of them, slaves, though in a greater
proportion than in the rest of Alleghania, are very greatly in the
minority, as appears from the following table:--

COUNTIES FREE SLAVE
Madison, 3,763 1,933