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removed from Virginia and North Carolina, and expect to be followed by others. They tell us that an indulged meeting is held in one of their houses. There is much to induce Friends of the South-ern States, to remove to this new country; for, added to the consideration of the superior quality of the land, and the cheap and easy terms upon which it is to be purchased, there is an invalu-able regulation in the Constitution of Ohio, pro-hibiting the introduction of slaves. The Con-stitution has also provided that no person with-in the State shall voluntarily relinquish his right to freedom. Its framers have even gone further; they declare that they have made these regula-tions to be binding both upon them and upontheir posterity. This truly valuable country is forbidden ground to the Virginia slave holders. Many of them have approached as near to its borders as they have dared, by settling along the east shore of the Ohio river; their murmurs induced several persons in the State of Ohio, to offer themselves as candidates to the late State Legislature, de-claring their determination to use their influence in obtaining an alteration in this part of the Constitution. We are told that on account of this avowal, they met with the most pointed and zealous opposition; the people declaring gene-rally, that one of the inducements which led them to emigrate to the State, was the Constitu-