The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-08-21

and destined. unless change takes place n our
policy, to 10 rspldly before Louhville! Think
of what was Wild Indisa land few ysars since.
bling converted into States, and, If slavery re-
main, certain, In fifteen years mere, 10 distance
Ken,scky in population! Yet one half Of this
population, at least, must have been ours, " zee |
lad been free. There cannot Be doubt, then,
either as 10 the correctness of the rule follow,
OF the reasoning by which we establish it.
This being SO, let US enquire, what land, in
Kentucky would have been worth, if Kentucky.
like Ohio, had been free.
We have, emitting fractions, Jorty fhoasaad
square mics In our Commonwealth. The pop
ula,ion TO the square mile, ACCORDING to the GEN.
srs Of 1870. was eiehteea souls. Supposiog we
had Increased with Ohio. one hundred and fifty
tros per cent, from 1910 10 ieaG. sirty-one per
ceai., from leo to 1870, and si,sy-one and q
heF per cent, from 1880 TO 1910, we should
have had. to one square mile, al each decade.
the following number Of people,
| Population TO the square mile, lSa0 25.
do 90 do 1880, Al!
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| Now, what the effect of this Increase would
be upon cities, building and supporting rail.
ways, &c, We cannot stop to state, though
tempted to do so. The value Of land is our
topic. and We will stick 10 IL. Wen. forty thou
sand square miles, reduced to acres, amount TO
ftrenfy-6ve million, sir hundred and fourteen
thousand, seren hundred and frenty. The Au-
ditor, in his report for lSi6, puts the average
value of the returned land, in kentucky, at sir
dollars and hiry-one cents per acre. Suppose
) We rate it at five, for the sake Of plain and
easy calcu a,ioa. This, then, would he the re.
silt at our present population:
f Acres in Ky. Value per Acre. Total value
25,6li,72O S. Sl2S, 1888 ,6Oi
two millions, is over ten dollars. Applying
D her law of increase to Kentucky, and we shoul,
, have some seren hundred thousand more Of pop
ulstion than she has, and il woald be fair I,
make the average accordingly. But TO be With,
safe bounds, and argue from esrfoiR data, let u
put the va.ue of land, per acre. at ten dollars
This woulo yield us:
. Acres in Ky. Value per Acre. Total value
\ 25,6l4,720 $40 Sa56, III ,aOt
Instead, then, of having land valuation
1"der siaotry. of only one hundred and twenty
eigh, millions, three hundred anc eighty tire
=, thousand six hundred, We should have had
u, 18th freedom, TWO HUNDRED A>D rIFrr-sI.
MILLIONS, oNE HUNDRED AND FIFrT-sEvEN THOU
SAND, TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS!
What loss. Who can calculate itf IL /
not simply the dollars and cents that we mus
look at, but the impulse, energy, nicrprize, tina
such capital, and such population, woul
have given. Nor Yet alone these. For Their
would have sprung from this resource mora
might which would have made Kentucky, wit
:, her early and noble bias, the very eye anu hear
of the nation, seeing with keen vision whateye
could elevate the Union, and making its ,hro
9 felt wherever an appeal in behalf Of humanit
was made.
But more important, for the present, at leas
this calculation shows, conclusively, that ia
holders Of slaves, being almost universally Ian
orneTs, could give freedom to their bond, an,
:. make, if they cid but know it, profit Thereof
Let those who doubt, "fgure i, up" What
the value Of the slaves of Kentucky ? The
!, plumber ls3 500 AT 5000 head, if thus W
Ie must calculate, they would be worth in roun
y numbers. say, Jfjty:Gte millions. Now, by a:
q ceriaining the value of land, under slavery, an
with freedom, We can see, at glance. VIII,
p, would be the result. Thus:
G. Value Of Ian,
? In Slavery. sl2S, 3s3 60
81 With freedom, 2s6,Ii7, 20
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