than he for whom the slave labors, for which he is entitled the proceeds and of which the free negro is generally the participant, and but too often in the character of the receiver of stolen goods. Nothing can be more untrue than that the free negro is more respectable as a member of society in the non-slaveholding states than in the slaveholding states. In each he is a degraded outcast, and his fancied freedom a delusion. With us the slave ranks him in character and comfort, nor is there a fair motive to absolve him from his duties incident to domestic slavery if he is to continue amongst us. Generally, and almost universally, society suffers and the negro suffers by manumission.[76] FOOTNOTES [1] Wheeler, p. 279. [2] Acts of North Carolina, 1777, Ch. 6, Sec. 2. [3] Acts of 1801, Ch. 27, Sec. 1. [4] U. S. Census, 1870, I, Population, 62. [5] The Genius, II, 136; The Western Freeman, Shelbyville, Tennessee, Sept. 6, 1831. [6] Hale and Merrit, II, 296. [7] Acts of 1831, Ch. 102, Sec. 1. [8] M. & C., Sec. 2711. [9] Ibid., Sec. 2712. [10] Ibid., Sec. 2703. [11] Acts of 1831, Ch. 102, Sec. 2. [12] M. & C., Secs. 2704-6. [13] Jameson v. McCoy, 5 Humphrey, 118 (1871). [14] Fisher’s Negroes v. Dabbs, 6 Yerger, 129 (1834). [15] Ibid., 130. [16] Andrews v. Page, 3 Heiskell, 660 (1870). [17] Acts of 1833, Ch. 81, Secs. 1-2. [18] Acts of 1842, Ch. 191, Sec. 1. [19] The Case of F. Gray, 9 Humphrey, 515 (1848). [20] Ibid., 516. [21] Ibid., 515. [22] Acts of 1849, Ch. 107, Sec. 1. [23] Bridge Water v. Pride, 1 Sneed, 197 (1863). [24] Acts of 1852, Ch. 300, Sec. 3. [25] Acts of 1854, Ch. 50, Sec. 1. [26] Boon v. Lancaster, 1 Sneed, 583-4 (1854). [27] Twenty-seventh Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1861, pp. 215-6. [28] Acts of 1858, Ch. 45, Secs. 1-4. [29] Hale and Merritt, II, 300-301. [30] Acts of 1806, Ch. 32, Sec. 1. [31] Acts of 1807, Ch. 100, Sec. 1. [32] Acts of 1825, Ch. 79, Sec. 3. [33] Acts of 1842, Ch. 191, Sec. 5. [34] Acts of 1831, Ch. 102, Sec. 1. [35] Acts of 1826, Ch. 22, Sec. 6. [36] Acts of 1829, Ch. 23, Sec. 21. [37] Acts of 1852, Ch. 158, Sec. 1. [38] McDonald, William, Select Charters Illustrative of American History, 1606-1775, 122, S. 5. [39] McDonald, Op Cit., 123, Sec. 6. [40] Col. Recs. of North Carolina, I, 639; State Recs. of N. C., XXIV, 14. [41] Ibid., III, 93, 560. [42] Ibid., IV, 106; Davis, James, Laws of North Carolina, 79. [43] Davis, 177-180. [44] North Carolina Constitution of 1776, Secs, 7, 8, and 9; Col. Recs., XXIII, 881. [45] U. S. Statutes at Large, I, 108. [46] Ibid., First Congress, 1790; Chap. VI, Sec. II, pp. 106-9. [47] Constitution of Frankland, Sec. 4; Ramsey, J. G. M., Annals of Tennessee, p. 327. [48] Journal of the Convention of 1796, p. 21. [49] Ibid., p. 22. [50] Constitution of 1796, Art. III, Sec. 1; see also Journal of the Convention of 1796, p. 16. [51] Ibid., Art. I, Sec. 1.