Excerpt from The Friend, Vol. 21: A Religious and Literary Journal; September, 1847 North Carolina, and Western Virginia, to agi tate and urge this view - that the new consti tions, as they are made, should provide that any county may become free from Slavery, whenever a majority of the legal voters should so determine, and that hereafter there should be, except for crime, no involuntary servitude in said county. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.