The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-07-24
a.es 40 Reassa TegesAse.


Like us, he ha. passed through changes, and is
willing to reason on subject which he used to
silence. when introduced, in anger
We are rejoiced that he is so near to us in oPin-
ion. We trust we shall be nearer yct nay that
We may be one in mind and purpose. We quote
a portion Of his letter, 10 show his disposition |
and tendencies. and TO reply, in part. TO his |
views:
you will allow me to say; that your spirit
il catholic, and that YOU argue with force But
nv view is, nat YOU should not quit the field OF
statstcs-that the pulpit should have charge OF
the morality Of slavery, and that You should
show that slavery is the most costly SYSTEM ever
devised BY man, and certain to devour his sub
stance. Prone that IL soonf pay, and II will move
planters sooner than any thing else. ] am a re-
ligious man; believe that religion is opposed TO
slavery; know that slavery Expresses the white la
boring man; know that it plays old hob with our
childr-n;--but for all this, you must touch the
pocket nerve before You can succeed: tut all
your strength in this--that il does not. and will
never pay"
We dissent. We cannot allow our friend to
hold these views, without an effort TO change
them. We must step in between him and his
class, and defend both against his argument
We will not admit that these the views Of
Shareholders, and We ask friend TO follow us
while We attempt to prove it.
LIST. This argument reduces shareholders to
the lowest level of Il miserable ayarice.
What is the proposition II is, that We must
show, simply, that a moneyed failure will iolloev
slavery if it be- upheld. We shall do this, fully
and frequently. Ii is all right that We should.
But when told that nothing else will move slave
holders, what is it but declaring that they value
their pocket more than -justice-religion ?
Is our friead willing to have this character
Does he believe, really, that his associates possess
it The planter is noted for his hospitality.
Every where we hear of the generosity and i'm
pulsive nobleness Of Shareholders. Yet admit
this argument; hedge them in by the coolest av
arice; paint them dead to everything but their
own interesss--and We strip them, at once, of all
these virtues, and make them, like the coin they
are supposed to love. inanimate, hard, unfe-ling,
cruel.
This argument if really true, would an.
initiate every regard for common justice in the
shareholders bosom.
Our friend knows. "thai slavery Expresses
| white laboring men, so does his class. Now,
oppression is the rankest wrong Ii stirs up,
and it Oughtto stir up, burning Indignation. anu
resolute opposition, wherever, and by whomso.
ever practised IL is a blot upon him who exer.
cises-uPon all who neglect TO remove it, Yet
our friend coolly acknowledges the fact.--hi.
language is, 81 knon that slavery Expresses poor
white laboring men,''--and as coolly says, that
neither he nor his brother saveh olders will con-
slider this oppression, nor act against it, only a
money shall be endangered or lost thereby
Why, if history We're to inform us of any class
of men conducting themselves so feeling, il
would reyel in fiery indignation against the
recreants; and not boy in our schools, on
defamation day. nor any orator any plato I'm
where liberty Was the theme, that would no:
huIi defiance against all inhumaniiy so glarins
"a corruption so debasng.
8. This argument ma kes parental love a cal
culaiing, mercenary feeling among Shareholders
Love of offspring is planted in every human
heart, rooted there, vital TO its very existence
| IL is the vassalage of earth TO heaven II is the
link which binds US to our upper home. Breath
is poor, and speech unable, when seeking to eY.
press describe it. 1t never looses its ustre on
earth; and when We pass away. il but melts in
TO the larger purer low. of heaven, there IN live
forever. Touch father TO the quick, stir hi.
blood, and make his proud soul feel proude,
yet, rouse his solid virtue, and put him where
he can be neither grazed nor pierced by the sho,
of accident or Of fortune,-and YOU must make
his son the theme Of discourse, or the subject o.
action. His noble nature rises, then, to its full
stature. Yet one of the best of fathers advises
tai love, so high. and holy. What says he
81 knor that slavery plays old hob with oul
children" But, for all that, his argument runs
declare it not in private, affirm it in public
nor tell it TO slaveholding parents, nor yet urge
it as an argument for freedom. but prove instead
that slavery will lose money. You will LOT
move our hearts through love of our children
touch our pocket nerve and you can" Why
! art thou a man. Are thy associates mem II
doth amaze US to hear such advice, and to FIND
good, honest planters, willing TO give and fol.
low il, when, as lowering temporizers, they are
made, thereby, instruments Of the ruin of the il
own offspring. We will hear no such argumen a,
nor believe that men who have winter IN
their bounty, can be caught by such chat, Of
wind shaken by the fear il conceaIs, or blasted
by the inhumanity its admission involves.
1. This argument would destroy. if acted up.
on, all religion among shareholders.
Our friend SAYS, religion is opposed to sla-
very" Some assert the contrary. There
are divines who argue to prove the contrary
But our own experience-the experience Of some
Of our oldest friends in the slave States--the
fact that so many remove from slavery, and ths,
so many, who live amid il, cannot die withou,
emancipating their slaves-the inherent sense G,
right which burns in every bosom,-all assure
US, that our correspondent expresses the convic.
ton of majority Of his class What then, /.
his proposition? Nothing more or less than q
suppress Gods word. "Religion is opposed "a
slavery How can he, how dare any man, q
this be his belief, hesitate ms to his course1 Il
| IL mockery to tigi, heaven, IL II an insult I,
earth, TO say that our highest boon-that relirio,
teaches us a duty which we need not perform
and it becomes the most horrible of all sac
riieges to God and man, when We are bid tc
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