The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-07-03

ter has no capital bu, what Is invested in ngnAN
FLESH. The father, instead of being richer for /
his sons, IL at loss to provide for them. There
is no diversity Of occupations, no incentive to
enterprise. Labor Of erery sprcies 10 disr9ets.
Ole, because performed mostly by slaves. Our
towns are stationary, our villages almost every
where declining, and the general aspect Of the
country marks the curse of wasteful, Idle,
reckless population, who have interest in the
soil, and care not how much IL Is impcyer-
ished"
This language, doubtless, is strictly true when
applied to Virginia; bat it could not be so liter
ally applied TO kentucky. Coun,eracting
causes come in 10 mitigate the evil Our CONT
guilty to aourshing free States help us out Of il.
STILL We feel every evil lac enumerates, and there
is not a Southern man. who has thought OH the /
subject. who does not kaor, a general rule,
that slavery makes labor badge Of dishonor.
"a. This difficulty Expresses heavily and d.
rectly the white Iaboring classes.
Of this fact, there is scarcely room for doubt
or dispute. Let us place ourselves, if We would
les, IT, in the position Of shareholders, me
chanics. or small farmers. They have TO work.
They have no way 10 get their food. except by
the sweat of their brow. And they 90 work,
day in and day out, with hard, unrelenting toll
But in sight of the shop where they are engaged,
or beyond the fence surrounding the ground
they till. they see slaves employed they are
Their owners. with here and there an exception,
do not soil their hands with hammer or hos, nor
ply with muscles, plane, or plough. They di-
IL. Il. Il. l.kn hat
der these circumstances, must be the feelings of
the mechanics and small farmers Ho1 should
rx feel If situated like them We should be
dicontented with our lot; loathe our social con-
diiion; loaihe labor; and nothing but all uncon-
troll sbte necessity would compel us TO submit.
We should emgratc; go to the mountains; go
any where TO get clear of such groaning annoy
ances. Saw what please about despising out
ward inhuences-prate as eloquentiy as We may
as 10 independence--there is not one, in a thou
sand, who, if he could help himself, would
not leave his native hearth, while thus humbled
and borne down. aud seek a new home where
labor is respected, and where he could be first
amongst the best. This consideration drives,
as il has driven. thousands of brave fellows from
Kentucky.
b. This difficulty is made terrible reality TO
non-slave holding fathers by the effect it has up
on their children.
A man, often, endures suffering ra;her than
change We know many such cases. man
from habit, in the hope that something better
will turn up, may submit to Inconvenience, OF
bear with the raakest oppression, rather than
Danish himstN from his native sod. Instances
of this kind familiar TO all. But man
does, or can submit TO wrong when that wrong
brushes the hopes of his children, or brings dis
honor upon their names, nor is fright he should
Consider, then. the case Of these fathers. who
as small farmers, or poor mechanics are obligec
To keep their offspring in field. or shop. while
all around them slaves Going the work they
do. The masters Of these slaves would do NJ
harm 10 these poor Young whites they mear
none 10 them whatever; may, they would helE
them if they could but the very fact, that they
|, keep aoof from all toll that their boys shun i
rs hateI OF despised thing. aud sport in all tn
joyous freedom of youth. as free from care a
: the wild winds tina; blow by them, while ,hei
4 poorer slaves under hroiing sun or the bitin:
+. cold. are working on, heavily, and draiingly
makes the institution OF slavery enter like iroI
into their souls. They might submit. wer
they alone concerned but for their children
sake they cannot I; and they go from W, an
j. in free lana seek hirer, happier field OF ac
d, ton for them and theirs Kentucky from
this cause has helped to swell the population O
many free States
n ;ih This difficulty again presses home witt
ten-fold severity upon non-slave-holders BE-,
cause of the conduc, of the slaves
\ Negroes are imitators beyond any portion @
our race. They catch the manners of master
anu ape, quickly the sentiment Of the public
- And. consequently. all over the South, We fin
- them speaking of, aud treating eonte,nptuos
;, the poorer whites-realy affecting to pity near
~ all those whites who labor. Poor Buckra''i
:, their phrase in South Carolina: Poor trash
in Kentucky. Nor is this an evil that can b
helped. We know planters who have lahore
hard to check il. We know independent non
shareholders, happening 10 live near large plan
tations, who have essayed 70 put down this inso
lence. But all in vain. II springs out Of tn
institution itself. Besides. there are so man
n ways of showing contempt-in a look, ton
Of the voice. bearing of the frame. that Oh
:, thing itself could be done. and done coniin
ually, without the sufferer being able even TO no
ticeit. He feels il. nevertheess--fce!s i bitter
= iy, and to the quick. Imagine, then. nom slave
Is holders, besides enduring ills which come HON
" TO their hesrtl,-which make them Disconnected
> which blight their chidren's hopes, having, i
u some form or other, "a submit TO the serene O
d scott Of the slave, and ask whether we woul
n submit to all this. lis idle to bosom aoou
> such things; We should go. and go at once
u We can only glance at this point now.
II operates widely, deeply; much more widely an
Re deeply than most of us suppose. 1t drives tn
Al citizens from Kentucky. and keeps the mechan
N ic away. II sends of the young and enterpris
u ing Of the laborng classes from our soil, an
i makes il forbidden ground, at the same time, I
IL those of like character who would settle here.
Now we DO no, mean, in any thing we hav
said, TO charge these evils upon slave holders.
They would arrest them if they could the
cannot. These evils are the natural result q
the institution of slavery. and, though they ma
be. and are modified by various circumstance,