The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-08-28

being to the utter discontinue Of the anti slave
Y men In Kentucky. and to the great Joy Of
the pro-slas cry men. The reason Of this effect
rs obvious II resulted from plain and every
DAY principles of humanity. Kentucky felt
tnat she was under the dire curse Of slavery.
she was willing and anxious to rid herself Of il.
Many OF her good and great men were eagerly
and busily casting about for a feasible plan.
Nearly all the good hearts in the country were
enlisted in the cause, and nearly all the great
minds were laboring for its accomplishment.
when she was 30 sorrowing and troubled. her
sympath'zing neighbors, the abolitionsts, step
ped in and played the part Of comforters worse
IMAM those OF Job; for, the good Book tells US,
hat when the neighbors' of Job went to visit
their afflicted friend, they sat down with him
upon the ground seven days and seven nights,
and none sp'Ike word unto him; for they saw
his grief was very great. The abolition party
waited not moment. We were instantly pro-
claimed infamous wretches, and denounced as
rghuy visited with all our suffering and trou-
bic. We were said to be wanting in every high
and noble sentiment Of humanity The idea Of
gradual emancipation was secuted, and our ef-
forts TO accomplish il, declared idle. Ii we did
not instantly liberate the slave, let him 90 free
as air, and make him in all respects equal to
ourselves, we were to be visited with all the ven.
geance of all insulted and angry God We
were to our faces declared tyrants of the very
worst and msanest order,-we were creatures
wearing the human form, but void of all those
qualities of the head and heart that ennobles
man.
Such was the comfort, such the counsel of
these would-be friends. II was folt a. gross insult
and was received and treated as such. have
seen it said somewhere, that YOU had better
knock a man down than draw a feather over his
raised shin. There is wisdom in the saving
We had acknowledged our malady, and were
honestly seeking remedy. Instead of meeting
with comfort and hopeful counsel, we were
greeted with curses, deep and loud We were
indignant and angry. All thought Of emanci.
patton was dropped. All united in denouncing
the abolitionists. and language as insulting was
thrown back at them. Ii is no uncommon
thing to meet man. who was, before the form
alton Of the abolition societies, zeaously in favor
OF emancipation, now as zealously advocating
slavery. This looks singular, but il is not un-
natural. We see the same thing every day.
Let warm debate arise upon any trivial ques-
ton, and Zeal will lead one or both parties to
take false positions. IL the subject be one Of
such interest as TO call into action the strong
and violent passions of our nature, still more
absurd positions will be taken. MANY of our
citizens have been forced, by the violence of the
aboitionists, TO abandon the ground with re-
spect 10 slavery, which, in their calmer nome It's
they had taken. This is the great evil Wi tn
which we have to contend from abroad. For a
time, many who had been ardent emanc ipators,
lost all hope Of ever succeeding. Men went to
such extremes It's TO make no distinction between
the emancipator and the abolitionist, and to be
an emancipation was TO be AS leper of old, or
as one afflicted with hydrophoba.
The abolitionisis have foied all the honest ef-
forts of the anti-slavery men in Kentucky
They have postponed the day. when the negro
would have been free. Ii they will let us alone,
and give us ieisIr and opportunity to think and
act for ourselves, the day will soon come when
Kentucky can say'-and say proudly-I am
free,
Let the aboli,ionists give up their crusading
Observation-Disclosures feel and suffer much more
than they do. The STAKEHOLDER feels and suffers
under present heavy evil. with AN obscured
future. The aboltionist feels no weight resting
on him, and gloom in his prospect; of
his sympathy and his duty, he can talk and
write, and he does il. The feeling of the slave
holder passe;h all show. ! speak as one born
and brought up in slaveholding Sta,e-a slave
holder by inheritance and by purchase.
But if the abolitionists will not give up call
ing Us hard names, and abusing us Tor having a
malsdy which we inherited. we must learn 10
disregard them. We cannot excuse ourselves
are clamorous for Us TO DO that which is right in
their way. Let Us look a, the evil, ana earnestly
consider of the remedy. ClVIS.