The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-07-10

Iiplied avoeatons, and these syecations hlled up
by men of limited means, but steady industry,
If we would flourish. All capital. we know.
GENES from labor Existing capital Is itself only
the result of past labor If we lessea, then, the
amount Of muscle. mind, inventiye genius, or
the number Of hands employed in the State. We
do. 80 far weaken Its strength, waste its present
capital, ANA destroy its future wealth. Let us
hot be deceived or all wealth-of all means Of
weal,h---of all sure foundations Of prosperity
and mind Of man are The ONLY instrumen taities
on which We can rely. Capital may be scattered
like chat BY the first rude breath Of heaven; but
the widest storm cannot unstrins this muscle,
or unneye that mind. Power may crunble Us
a dry clod in the hands Of the ieeblest boy; but
while God wills, no human element can. crush
mans strength. To debase labor, then,'o drive
away our population--to prevent a population
from, coming among Us, through such debase-
ment, is 10 iniiict LONE wound which no State
surgery can bind up or heal "a wound which will
bleed. and continue 20 bleed, until we wasted
10 the very lowest point Of existence.
Suppose, BY way of considering this subject
practically, we ask, Whist the population of Ken
lucky would be nor, if from the first, we had
been free There is a law of increase in Ohio
which will answer this question. Let ms see
what thar is
Ohio population lsi0 230,s6o
Increase IAl0 TO 1890 3306.t iSs per rent.
1890 10 1880 3j6s6 81 Y"
1870 TO isio 5si,J6t 6il -
TOTAL population lsso t.Si9.aC:
Now apply this law of increase here exhib-
ted, and who can deny the business of this APP
plicatOn, If the curse of slavery had never black
ened our State Who doubt that kentucky
this hour. would have been the proud peer Of
cities ana towns larger. denser and richer pop.
ulstion. If this mighty and monstrous evi
had no, crushed her Let figures speak the re,
suit.
Ky. as she rs. Ky according to Ohio Increase.
Pop $40 4o6sii
1910 10 Isao 1886 2prct. 1870 sSt.A:-I.cs..,o
l-so to Asa y.9ii -. isso .7s.eas- aG63sl
Total is40 779.sss Total $50 a,sSasl
This, then, is the result. As we are, Will
slavery, We have population of seven hundre,
and seyenty-nine thousand, eight hundred AN,
twenty-eight While We might have had, ~iti
freedom, TWO MILLIONS siX HUNDRED AND sIXrN
THREE THOUSAND, STA HUNDRED AND ELEVEN :.
let any man, the talle.t among us, say wha
thi- loss is, Let the best among those, VIII,
shrink back when Slavery j. mentioned, an,
aver that neither its wrongs, nor consequence
must be discussed, tell the public what this los
h-s cost the people of the State of Kentucky
Let any Of them in pulpit. or platform, grasI
the whitening influences OF servitude upon IN
past and present and paint them as they are
Let them review the moral aspects of the ques
ton. ana proclaim how il has retarded th
growth Of cities, and kept DOWN the value o
property In them, checked the settlement of ia
country, and lessened the price Of lands. stoPpe-
the Building of railways, corrupted power, am
stun;sd the growth of every thing Let then
90 this, and there is not a voter, free from pre-
JUDGE, not a man OF woman ia all kentuck,
alive TO herinteresis or the good OF the race. VIII
would not say, away with il. away with it
II is the States blight-it is the darkest Of hu
nan curses-and we canIo; be Just or happ,
or prosperous until we ore rid of it
But away with all regrets. The past H. gone
Let it be dead, and bury is dead. The presen
is our, and the future we can moulc ss We will
Let us TO work, then, and see how We may d.
the bes; for both, how ne may lay deep an,
broad foundations of success for the Frestsf, AN.
build up the future with sterling endurin,
growth. We have the energy and neart. w
have the material. God has filled our very hill
with mineral wealth, and covered all our plain
with richest fertility snd all that we have .,
co, TO improve ourselves. 6eveiopc our re-
sources, and be as great good. s, to Civ
wing TO Industry, 10 stamp labor with the badg
Of homer, TO pluck up BY the roots whatever ma,
sap manly vigor, TO crush ali that makes human
energy .lavish 10 be free