The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-10-02


Did you ever, reader, have a pile Of letters
before you, from various parts and people, ane
rea6 them ever one by one7 1t is not always q
pleasant task. But it may be made so, If you
will only learn from them the characters Of the
writers. The cautious, sanguine, bold, imPul-
sIve, timid-can be guessed, at once, without
Combe's book, or Fowler's chronological bust.
This whole day, though not with this view,
we have been reading and answering letters, and
we do not know that we can employ its close
better than in giving running notice Of their
contents.
The first we take up is from a North Ala
bamian. His parents were South Csrolinians;
but moved to the West, where he mainly
reared. He saws.
81 was principally raised in North Alabama,
but had to leave there on account of slavery.
could not live there without participating in IL
some way, and that / determined not to do. / am
attached TO the country; IL has mild and ge-
nial climate: produces the best of fruits and
vegetables; but the curse Of slavery upon il,
has ruined It. / feel as If | should like TO 60
back and live there, if this curse could be re-
moved; but have no hope Of it in my day"
"Let him CO." say one class. Not so, friends,
What drove that man away, drives thousands.
II may not impoverish you; but it does impov-
erish the State; check its growth; its power;
stop the building Of railways; limit the COM
forts and happiness of the many; unnerve and
debase labor. "Let him stay" add another. So
say We. Stay here, stay, and battle against the
evil-stay, sni root it out.
Bot listen again to Southron:
"The last year ] lived there alabama In
1855 sttende. two meetings in my county to
ferret out snt-savery publications; abolition
papers, I dared not take any part. I could say
what pleased in private without running any
risk; ami any body who knew the middle
class men would have been Gstonished al the ex-
tent Of the emancipation feeling. In fact be-
lieve il is more extensively felt at the South
than we generally suppose"
WeIl-we say, stay at home, and talk as you
please 10 private. Rouse the middle class
They have the stuff in them to DO. If resolved,
they can carry tn. day. And why should they
not speak outl This 81 dared not take envy
part" 10 what makes the masses powerIess, and
the few absolute. If in private men say what
they please, they can soon &C: in public. Stay,
then, at the South, and work.
Let US hear now from Western virginis-s
friend writes Us:
al have the opinion of some of the citizens
If Woo3 county, that If they had somebody to
s~ks ERE load. StIsa.4SfpaIiea representative
could be elected from that county. So of the
counties rouni It."
"Somebody to take the lead" Do we wait
for that In private sffsirs1 When our interests
demand Il, do we stop to enquire what we should
cay or dot This idea about waiting to take the
lead 10 q most pernicious one. Let the good
man utter himself, and other goo0 men will re-
spond, and leadership will soon be settled. The
hour then will produce its man.
But another correspondent says:
81 have perused the several numbers of the
Examiner a. they have been received, and am
well pleased with the manner in which IL has
BEEN conducted % far. hope il NAV prove a
valuable auxiliary in the great and good work of
terminating American slavery. One thing is
perfectly obvious to every man who reflects on
the past history of our country, and carefully
surveys the present position Of our national af-
fAtu. Slavery must soon be checked in its pro-
grsss, or the union Of these States must be dis
solved, and with the dissolution of the Union,
In all probability, will terminate all our fair
hopes Of prosperity and freedom. God grant
that the onward tide of this tremendous evil. |
which has hitherto surmounted and swept away
every barrier, may not be permitted to under |
mine and overthrow our Constitution, our
Union, our liberties. Swift's spider, when he |
saw the housewives broom, said that Heaven
and Earth were coming together, but the COM |
Ing together Of Heaven and Earth, was but the |
coming down Of his cobweb.''
Never fear. friend, about disunion. We of the |
mid-slsve States will save that. We don't mean |
that the PerPetuaists shall have everything their
own way, and If they make the effort to dissolve
the Government, these States will prevent it, |
The Kentucky Statesmen say so. The Missou-
risns all 80 declare. Nay, as to that. Judge
Niekelss' declaration will hold good Of all of
hem. They will never scquiesce in the idea
hat negro slavery is to be entailsd upon them,
md their POsterity, in PerPstuity and never