The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-09-18

can make labor sweet, whtoh clothes II with
cheerfulnsss, aud enables il to advance the indi-
vidual, and swell the wealth, Of the State, which
produces health and Happiness. virtue and
vigor, as il subdues the wilderness, and subju.
ga,es the elsments,-is, the consciousness on the
part Of every one who tolls, that he is free to
build up his own fortune, free TO live and enjoy
life, free to do, whatever may add TO his stability
ana growth. Give an individual anywhere this
motive, let him kno1.as he sweats over anvil,
or work bench, or in the fields under a burning
sun, that the home by is to be happy,
and wife and little ones blessed through
his efforts, and that --therefor he himself
will be one, if difficulties and pers, .thick and
black as Imagination can conceive, were to be-
girt him round.
How conclusively does the experiment made
by Mr.. McDoNoucH, aiarge planter living OPP
posite the City of New Orleans sustain what
We say. He bought, some twenty years ago,
one hundred and fifty negroes. He selected
them in Virginia, not with reference to mental
quickness. or their moral training, but simply
with regard to their physical strength. Taking
them home, he told them "You may gain your
freedom in fourteen years If you will, pay for
yourselves, leave me enough 10 supply your
places with others, and have a sufficient
sum left to establish you in Liberia. This is
nv plan; I'VE shall give il in detail hereaiter) II
you accept it, the contract is made" They
accepted And what followed McDoSouGH's
slaves were the wonder Of the New Orleans pub
lie. Nobody worked like them None could
---er~,A with them. They were up early and
late; labor appeared to them like pastime; 1t was
goody and glorious enjoyn and, had it not
been for this, for their laughing, hearty, whole
souled cheerfulness, $50 close and steadily did
they work their master would have been de-
nounced as hard and cruel. But these slaves
had motire 10 toll thus; that motive gave them
a spring, and lifee and energy, and steadiness
which enabled them TO learn anything, to en-
dure every thing, to surPass every laborer near
them.
suppose now, freeing Kentucky from human
seryitude, and from every active cause which
stamps labor with disrepute, We could inspire our
people with like industry, and impart TO them
the motives which every artizan should feel
what could we not accomplish for the hsppi-
ness and well-being of the Commonwealth.
Think you. under these circumstances, that the
coal imbedded in our hills, the iron ore thick
ly set in our soil, and the rock which girds our
,hax- a., in
heavy unshapen masses, wholly useless to any
of US, Think you, with the water power, and
the raw material at hand, we should be, under
these circumstances, dependent upon distant
people for our supplies. Why, Ike Connecti-
cut, our State then would be stirring work
shop-eyery man busy, and all turning their
business TO good account-with schools in every
neighborhood, and web of railways uniting
all neighborhoods, the people demanding, and
the legislature promptly doing Whatever the
public good really demanded.
Say not, reader, that all this Is fancy work.
Ii NAV be made sober reality, and, by getting
rid of prejudice. and exerting yourself, You may
help 10 make il so. Turn, if you doubt us, to the
following table. 1--WE put our estimates rery low
and. as We go on, make your calculations, and
see. IL we err in what We have said above, or in
the closer reasoning which figure. present. We
have only to apply the law of increase of Ohio
to obtain one result we would prove. Thus:
In 1910 XIV. had white
males over 10 years, $4,000
In l5i0, Ky. had free
90 -. -l-----. ---i-
and female, Ill ,62i
Equal 70, say, 55,3l3
243,6l3
Producing $50 each per annum, S',30s,39O
But if Kentucky had in
creased with Ohio, she
would have had in $40,
of adult males, cSO,0OO
Of females, e90,00o
I,760,000
Males producing each $50 per an
mum, $40, .Oo,ooo
Females, $40 $500, 900
s35,6OO,OOO
What contrast. What dead annual loss.
With Slavery we have only little over seuen