Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1845-03-26

VOL. XVI RI
has succeeded from the beginning. in the general
education of her citizens. Governor Hammond
Of South Carolina says in his message to tho Le-
gisIa,ure-"Iho free school system is failure
lis failure is owing to the fact that it does
not suit our people government
Experience and reason have long since proclaim
ed the Same unwccome fact.
Whilst Mr.. Wickliffe was specializing l was
acting. By aid of the law Of 1893, hoped ul-
,imatcly to cmancipato the State from lgnoranc
poverty and crime. Kentucky called upon her
sons by all the glorious memories of tho past by
all the fond hopes of the future, to resist those
who by the repeal Of that law and retrograde
movement, would sink her into everlasting night
and slower deep of perpetual slavery. The time
had at last come, when | was TO play the selfish
time server for Office and temporary elevation, or
planting myself upon the eternal principles of
truth Justice and reason, looking to conscience,
to postcri.y and to God, to fall proudly in their
causes. What though be "a fanatic or cnthu-
siast' in holding that slavery is contrary to the
Declaration of Independence; the Constitution OF
the United States; the common law of our Eng
lish inhe ritance and in violation Of the laws OF
nature & Of God-the effects Of il are beyond all
CONTROVERSY; tho monumental hand of tmo has
written them in cha racters of horrible distinct
noss turning tho dowy heavens into brass, and
scathing the green earth with scrility end decay.
Tho whole South crios out with anguish agalGs
this and that measure Of national INJURY
.,rores and donounces in alternate puer-
iiitv. max and unmakos presidents; onacts and
rcnoaIs laws viii, .satulence and recklessncss,
moro worthy of manly ind i;na.'on than the pitt
abie forbaa rance of tho North. Yet no reiiof
comes to the sinking patient; her hypochondrlac-
al illusions arc not dspecd; she cannot, she will
not see that slavery, nothing but slavery, is the
cause of Lor ruin. Her fields relapse into prlmi-
tive stcrility: her population wastes away; manu-
features recede from the infected border; ade
languishes decay trenches upon her meagre nc-
cunlulations of tasto utility; gaunt famine
STALKS into the shattered portals OF the homestead;
the hearth stone is invaded by moro relentless
intruder than the officer of tho laws and the cas-
tic that may stand before the sword, falls by his
slow, secret and rcsstlcss enemy; the blood OF the
body polite is frozen at tho core; atrophy para
lyzcs all its limbs; sullen despair begins to dis
play itself upon tho carc-worn faces OF mon; the
Heavens and the earth cry aloud-the eternal
laws Of happiness and existence have been tram
pied undor foot and yet with most pltiable in
fa.uation, tho South still cings to slavery.
The competition of unrequi,od service, slave
abor do9s the y sves ons OF these
norancc; and ignorance and poverty are the last
high roads to crime and suffering. Among the
fortunate property holders, religion ana mo-
rality arc staggering and dying. ldeness, OK
travaganco; unthrttiness. and want OF energy.
preciptate Shareholders into frequent and unhcard
of bank rup!ccs, such unknown IN tree
States and we'll ordered Monnrches. The spirit
of uncontrolled command vitiates our tcmpera-
mcnts, and destroys that evenncss OF temper and
cquanimity Of soul. which arc the sheet anchors
of happiness and safety in world OF unattaina-
bio ecsiro and memorable OWL. Population Is
sparse, and without numbers thoro is neither
competition division Of labor and OF necessity
all mechanic arts langulsh among us. Agricui-
turo drags along its slow pace with slovenIy, IS
noraut, reckless labor. Science, literature and
art arc strangers here; poets. historians artists
and mcchaniss, the lovers of the ideal, tho great.
tho beautiful the true and tho useful the unit
ring scarchers into the hidden treasures of un-wl-
ling nature, making tho winds, the waters, the
pa pablo and impal pablo essences of things trlbu-
tary 10 man: creating qualification tor the body,
and giving new susceptibility and expansion to the
soul; they flourish where thought and action are
untramelled over daring must be the spirit OF &C.
MUS; it's omnipotcnce belongs only to tho free.
\ loose and inadequate respect for the rights of
property, Of necessity follows in the wake of
slavery. Dazzling. bloodshed and Lynch law
leave bat little security to person. A general de-
moralization has corrupted the first minds IN the
nation; its hot contagion has spread among the
whoo peoples RIGHTEOUSNESS. crime and btter
hate nfcst us at home: Reputation ana the forcl-
bic propa gandism Of slavery IS arraylng against
US the world in | appeal TO history, to rea-
sou. TO nature 81 TO conscience which neither tino
nor space. nor fear nor hate. nor hope of reward,
nor crime, nor pride. nor sefishness. can utterly
silcnce-arc not these things true. n minute
comparison of the free and slave States, SO often
and ably made, forbear. | leave t,.ls unwilling
and bitter proof TO each mans observation and re-
Election. There Is, however. one consideration
which | would urge upon all, because 1t excludes
all .fanaticism and enthusiasm Kentucky viii
be richer in dollars and cents by emancipation.
and shareholders will be richer by the change.
assert. from my knowledge. that lands
of :he Same quality in the free from 100 to
$50 per cent higher in value than in the slave
States. n hl1 GOO