Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-02-28
VOL. XI.-NO. 27.


ands Of the same quality in the free, are
rom 100 TO $50 per cent higher in value
han in the slave States; in some cases
probably six hundred per cent higher
Lands six miles from Cincinnati, in Ohio, /
am credbIy Informed, are worth $50 per a.
ere, whilst in Kentucky, at the same dis
lance from that city, and ofthe same quality
they are worth only $40 per acre Now
the slave holders ofthe State are, with few
exceptions, the land holders Of the State
they, therefore, absolutely increase their for
tunes by liberating their slaves, even with
out compensation. Thus il own 900
acres Of land in Fayette, it is worth $50, 900:
say | own IL slaves worth IS 600, the prob
able ratio between land and slaves; IL my
land rise TO the value Of the free State stand
ard, which il must do, my estate becomes
worth dosing the value Of the slaves, IS,
000,) 5000 fit rises to $50 per a
ere, three times its present value, as l most
sincerely believe it would do in twenty years
after emancipation, the man owning 900
acres of land, not worth $50 per acre, would
be worth, under the free system, Sl45,00O.
Now this assertion is fully proven by facts
open to all. Kentucky was settled by
wealthy emigrants; Ohio by laborers. Ken
lucky IS the senior of Ohio by nearly one
half Of the existence Of the latter. Kentucky
I is the superior of Ohio in soil, climate, min
erals and timber, 10 say nothing Of the beau
~ Of her surlace-and yet Ohio's taxes for
IS43 amounted TO s2,36I ,4S2 81, whilst
Kentucky's tax is only S343,6l7 66. Thus
showing Ohios superior productive energy
over Kentucky. Ohio has % electoral
votes to our 10, and outstrips us in about
Dihe same ratio in all things else. A COM
parson Of the older free states will show
more favorable balance sheet to the free la
Dor States; while the slave States have
greatly the advantage in climate and soil, to
say nothing of the vastly greater extent OF
the territory of the slave States.
Massachusetts produces more in gross
manufactures yearly than all the cotton in
the Union sells for Let Louisville look at
Cincinnati, and ask herself how many mill
IONS of dollars slavery costs her 7 All our
towns dwndie, and our farmers lose in con-
sequence, all home markets. Every farmer
bought out by the slave system sends off one
the consumers of the manufactures Of the
towns when the consumers are gone, the
I mechanic must go also. A has acquired
another 1000 acres Of land, but b has gone
to Ohio with the $4,000 paid for it, and
the State is that much the poorer in the ag
gregate A has increased his apparent
means, bnt his market has flown TO lands
governed by wiser heads than the land of
slavery can boasi Beef from Fayette sold
this spring in the city of New York for SO
! per hundred, but the expense of carriage
was So per hundred thus, for want of a
home market, which cannot exist in slave
LII IL
! yearly proceeds Of his farm. Slavery costs
/ every man in the community about the same
/ price-one half and more of the proceeds
J oil his labor, as the price oflands has already
: shown.
: Political difficulties thicken around US; war
for the perpeiuation of this curse. threatens
us in the distance; dark clouds Of bloodshed,
dissolution, and utter ruin, lower in the
! horizon the great national heart lies bleed
: ing in the dust, under the relentless heel of
the slave power. 1t requires no very quick
: eve TO see that the political power Of Ken
= lucky is gone forever, unless she takes a
: new tack and reviyes under the free labor
/, system. Having, in truth. no common in
] terest with the slave holding policy of the
: South, we bear the evil Of the alliance with
out any Of the supposed compromising ben
] e6ts slavery confers upon the cultivators
of rice, sugar, and cotton. The South is
beginning to be supplied with produce from
5 States nearer them in distance aud facilities
: in transportation than ours, whilst she is al
: ready too poor TO buy from, US we look for
S markets almost exclusively to Cincinnati
and New York, aud New Orleans, which
b last is but the outlet TO the other nations.
' Until Kentucky is prepared to go all lengths
. for slavery, she is powerlcss : not pro-slavery
S enough for the chivalry, nor free enough
: FOR the free between two stools she foun-
: ders on the ground.
9 Christians, moralisfs, politicians, and
: merely let live laborers, feel these bitter
}, truths. Kentucky never will unite herselfio
# slave empire, born Of Southern disunion, then
+ let her ut once lead on the van for freedom.
+ Is the cry OF liberty less powerful than sla.
= very TO move the hearts of men Let us then
i be lust, and fear not. Let US liberate oul
i slaves, and make friends instead Of enemie:
e for the evil day for all the signs of the
If times proclaim that the elements of revolu
5 ton are among us, when the crisis comes
d if we are free, all will be safe; if not. nc
o man can see the end. British emancipation
+ has gone before us, proving all things safe
II The price Of laud 10 the colonies is admitted
; on all hands to have risen in value, in spite
&c Of all the enemies Of freedom, these are the
e eternal and the disputable proofs of success
81 ful reform.
=, The day you strike OF the bonds of slave
e ry, experience and statistics prove the prophn
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