The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-10-16
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

Careful inquiry, and particular observation,
have satisfied us, that there is anti-slavery SEN
timent in Kentucky, enough, to do whatever it
may determine TO DO.
WesPeak deliberately. Not measuring Others
by our own feelings, or Judging Of public opin-
ion from partial and ever Jealous friends, but
going up and down among the various classes Of
society, and letting men speak for themselves and
Of slavery as they please, we may say. we knOr,
that the people Of this State are ripe for change,
and eager for emancipation. The la6oring
classes, so far as We have been able TO reach
them, svow in private their hearty desire for it,
They present, in many respects, noble exam
pie of endurance and patience. The curses of
slavery fall upon them heavily. If they be
young. and unmarried. they feel, as they toll,
that hundreds pity them, and look npon them
as degraded. IL they have families, and are
gathering about them the rich treasures of IA
faithful love, they knOr that these, their own
loved offspring, must wither, and may perish,
beneath the CALLING blight of human servitude
Yet, INDUCING in no revengeful feelings, and
looking alone to legal reform, they saw "for our
sakes, for the sake Of our children, for the good
of all, we ought and we must destroy slavery"
The mercantile Interests, especially in the
towns Of the interior, are almost unanimous for
freedom. Slavery cripples them in every way.
Farms stocked with negroes bring them no GUS
toners, and, these farms multiplied, drive away
the whites who would buy Of them. The intel
licent marcia n seaS M hat will .La hin, ,br;v.
increase his income give value TO his
property, what alone can insure any thing like
permanently to that income, or the value of that
property. Without an increasing population
without producing population--mercantile in
terests must diminish, and, therefore, our bust
ness men, whether influenced by other and
stronger considerations not, say ''let us have
emancipation, that the way may be opened for
immigrants, and our counties filled up, and our
towns made 10 increase. Why hold on TO sla-
very when it prevents this Why continue
system which impoverishes the many, and
deadens the enterprize of the Slater We want
it removed. We are willing to work for its re-
movsl if others will only Iead.'
The religious influences are growing stronger
and stronger in behalf Of freedom. Causes have
been operating and are still operating to repress
TO some extent, the voice of the Church,
to stife the convictions Of religious men,
The fear, that the discussion of slavery will
create wider and fercer divisions, and that in
the struggle piety would be forgotten, and reli-
gion tramPled under foot, has kept them meas
ursbly silent But this fear, and all other re-
tarding causes, are fast passing away. And as
they pass away, and the calmer persuasions of
reason and duty are heard, religious men begin
to realize the startling fact, that, il they are
true to their professions, and their God, slavery
cannot long exist. We say startling fact: |
for how can it be otherwise, when, their omis-
SION 10 do, keeps in utter darkness thousands of
human beings who cannot, while they are |
slaves, read the gospel, and thousands upon |
Thousands more Of whites, who, through the |
evils inseparabIy connected with slavery, are
driven TO ruinl This is a fearful responsibility
to meet II is dreadful 10 look upon, or think |
about But from extended correspondence, /
and personal intercourse, with near a hundred |
ciergymen Of the State, we are satisfied, that |
large number of Divines, and by far the larger
portion Of their congregations, are preparing, as
the only alternative left, strong, hearty, earn
est resistance to slavery. Where else should we
look for such resistance? On what else, save
religion, and in spread, can individuals or the
State build hope7 The Church, then, cannot
falter; IL will not, remembering it's master, and
his sacrifices, hold back much longer.
And shareholders, as a class, are getting more
and more willing, every day, not only to hear
slavery discussed, but to discuss, or consider il
Not specifically either, as some
suppose, not simply in its pecuniary relations,
a. = majority believe, but thoroughly, in all its
forms and relations. One Of the strongest pro-
slavery men, we know, writes us, 81 agree full
" in what you say, and if slavery be sin, or
the holding of slaves sin, II they ought to be
If the law should prohibit their being
'old except by families, let it be shown,-the
sooner the better. As you reason on these