Substantial people should stay in South Carolina to preserve their pristine purity, hospitality, freedom of thought, fearlessness and nobility.[27] [Footnote 26: Sumterville, S.C., _Whig_, Jan.

5, 1833.] [Footnote 27: "The Spirit of Emigration," signed "A South Carolinian," in the _Southern Literary Journal_, II, 259-262 (June, 1836).] An Alabama spokesman rejoiced in the manual industry of the white people in his state, and said if the negroes were only thinned off it would become a great and prosperous commonwealth.[28] But another Alabamian, A.B.

Meek, found reason to eulogize both emigration and slavery.

He said the roughness of manners prevalent in the haphazard western aggregation of New Englanders, Virginians, Carolinians and Georgians would prove but a temporary phase.

Slavery would be of benefit through its tendency to stratify society, ennoble the upper classes, and give even the poorer whites a stimulating pride of race.