Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-02-28


of happiness and safety in world of unattaina-
bic desire and memorable evil. Population is
sparse, and without numbers, there is neither
competition nor division of labor and of necess-
IT, all mechanic arts languish among us. Ag-
ricuture drags along its slow pace, with sloven-
ly, ignorant, reckless labor, Science, literature
and art are strangers here; poets, historians, ar
lists and mechanists, the lovers of the ideal, the
great the beautiful, the true and the useful the
untiring searchers into the hidden treasures of
unwilling nature, making the winds, the waters,
the papable and impapable essences of things
tributary to man; creating qualification for the
body, and giving new susceptibility and eXpan-
sion to the soul; they flourish where thought and
action are untrammclled; ever daring must be
the spirit of genius; its omnipotence belongs only
to the free. A loose and inadequate respect for
the rights of property, of necessity follows in the
wake of slavery, Dueling, bloodshed and lynch
law leave but little security to person. gen
eral Generalization has corrupted the first minds
in the nation; its hot contagion has spread among
the whole people; RIGHTEOUSNESS, crime and Bit
ter hate iniest us at home; Reputation and forci
bic propagandsm of slavery, is arraylng against
US the world in arms. | appeal to history, to
reason, to nature, and to conscience, which nei-
Their time nor space, nor fear, nor hate, nor hope
of reward nor crime, nor pride, nor sellishness,
can utterly silence-are not these things true!
A minute comparison of the free g. slave States,
so often and ably made----I forbear--l leave this
unwilling and bitter proof to each mans obscrya-
ton and reflection. There is, however, one CON
sideration which would urge upon all, because
it excludes all 'fanaticism and enthusiasm" Ken
lucky will be richer in dollars and cents by cman-
Cipation, and shareholders wU be eceahhicr by the
change.
assert, from my own knowledge, that lands
of the same quality in the free States are from
100 to $50 por cent higher in value, than in the
slave States: in some cases probably six hundred
per cent higher. Lands six miles from Cincin-
natl, in Ohio, | am credibly informed, are worth
$50 per acre. whilst in Kentucky, at the same
distance from that city, and of the same quality,
they are worth only ten per acre. Now the
shareholders the State are, with rare exceptions,
the land holders of tho State; they, therefore,
absolutely increase their fortune by liberatlng
their slaves, even Without compensation. Thus if
| own 900 acres of land in Fayette, it is worth
&50,000 say | own twelve slave, worth S., 900,
the probable ratio between land and slaves; if my
land rise to the value of tho free State standard,
which it must do, my estate becomes worth
closing the value of the slaves, IS, OO0,) $4,000.
fit rises to 81 so per acre, three times its pres
ent value, as | most sincerely believe it would do
in twenty years after emancipation, the man own
ing 900 acres Of land, not worth $50 per acre,
would be worth, under the free system, $l45, 900,
Now this assertion is fully proven by facts open
to ALL Kentucky was settled by wealthy emf
grants Ohio by laborers. Kentucky is the SEN
Tor of Ohio by nearly one half of the existence of
tho lOttor. Kontucky is tho superior Of Ohio in
soil, climate; minerals and timber to say moth
ing Of the beauty Of her serface-and yet Ohios
taxes for lS43 amounted to $2,36l ,482 81
whilst Kentucky's tax is only $3436I7 &C.
Thus showing Ohios superior productive ener-
gy over Kentucky. Ohio has % electoral votes
to our ID, and outstrlps us in about the same ra-
ito in all things else. A comparison of the old.
er free labor States will show more favorable
balance sheet to the free labor States; whilst the
slave States have greatly the advantage in eli
mate and SOIL to say nothing of the vastly great
er extent of the territory of the slave States
Massachusetts produces more in gross manu-
features yearly, than all the cotton in the Unio1
sells for. Let Louisville look to Cincinnati, ant
ask herself how many millions of dollars SLAYER,
costs her. All our towns dwindle, and our far
mers lose, in consequence, all home markets
Every farmer brought out by the slave system
sends off one of the consumers of manufacture
of the towns; when the consumers are gone, tn
mechanic must 90 also. A. has acquired anoth
er 1000 acres of land, but B. has gone to Ohic
with the $50, 900 paid for it, and the State i
that much poorer in the aggregate. A. has in
creased his apparent means, hut his market ha
flown to lands governed by wiser heads than tn,
land of slavery can boast. Beef from Fayette
sold this spring i'll the city of New York, for Sc
per hundred but the expense of carriage was s;
per hundred; thus, for want of a home market
which cannot exist in a slave State, the beefrais
er loses one half Of the yeary proceeds Of HI
farm. Slavery costs every man in the commit
nifty, about the same price---one half and NOR
of the proceeds of his labor, as the price of land
has already shown.
Political difficulties thickcn around US; VIZ
for the perpetuation of this curse threatens l
in the distance; dark clouds of bloodshed, dss'
luton and utter ruin, lower on the horizon; tt
great national heart lies bleeding in the dust, III
der the relentless heel of the slave power,
requires no very quick eye to see that the polit
cal power of Kentucky is gone forever, unle
she takes new tack, and revives under the lrC
labor system. Having, in truth, no common il
terest with the slaveholding policy of the Sout
we bear all the evils of the alliance, without al
of the supposed compromising benefits whic
slavery confers upon the cultvators ofrice suga
and cotton The South is beginning to be su
piled with produce from States nearer them
distance and facilities of transportation than our
whilst she is already to poor to buy from us;
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