The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-09-04

Indu.try-steady, sharp-sighted, untiiing in.
dustry, has amassed it. And no other means
will secure or retain II. But the effect Of sla-
very is to sap this industry-to make our young
men and young women incident, dependent,
wanting in the energy to be and do. Are they |
left with large farms, and a number o. slaves
The eye of the master must be every where, and |
his hand ready at all times, else will fences and
stock, and houses, and land 60 to rack and ruin.
Have they stores, with lots Of mercha ndize p
they ever SO faithful. The owner alone can
make them profitable, and that only by closest
skill and severest attention. Any other course
will be fatal. And another course, we know, IL
generally pursued. To expect an increase of
property, or a retention of property left them,
when those who have il are indolent, dependant,
or lack energy, is TO expect an impossbity
The result is that shareholders estates go TO ruin.
Ruin" said Senator UNDERWOOD years ago,
when arguing this point, "ruia cvertskes the
family Of the Shareholder that relies upon the
produce OF slave labor for support, and it is sell
dow delayed beyond the third generation"
Thus far we have argued upon the hypothesis
that slaveholding parents are industrious, and
left themselves above the evils of slavery.
But this is not SO. Here and there parents,
having an indomitable will, and high courage
are so well balanced to start well and end well.
as regards habits of industry, economy. and So
briefly. These, however, are exceptions. Sla-
very generates, in a large proportion Of slave
holding parents, idlencss-a positive inability to
do. How can it be otherwise They do not
work If they own q large number Of slaves,
they do not even attend to them they employ
overseers for that and the consequences is, that
they do not retain-mush less add to-the pro-
per,y they inherited. We remember going to
court, at Sumter. in South Carolina, in company
with three or four distinguished lawyers, and
coming TO house between nine and ten O'Clock
in the morning, where a father, and his five
sons, (all able to work were lying fiat of their
backs in the shade, while four negroes were toll
ing away in the cotton field in sight, This in
duced US to observe other plantations as we
passed along, and in not one of them, though
owned by men of moderate means, did see
a single white engaged in toll. IL believe
said Judge CASTOR, of North Carolina. ''if We
had accurate statistics, We should find that full
third of the shareholders of she South brought
up their children idly. and died leaving tn EN-
without adequate support. IL such support
descend to another third. l am confids mt they
squander il before they pass away, and that their
offspring are pennyless and unframed In every
way, as regards the labors of life. know that
in Eastern Virginia, North Carolina, ano South
Carolina, the effects of slavery are more disas-
tTous than | state them to be- The recoil
comes with deadning influence upon children
They fall terrible sacrifice TO the evil
We know, parents, that you indulge your
children you do because You love theni--that
you leave them TO encounter the evils Of slavery
because habit and interes, blind you, partially,
TO their extent, and because You fear TO s.rapple
with these evils. The mistake lie fatal one
God makes no special law TO exempt your chill
dEen from wrong, or the etfec Is of wrong doing
nor does society put any special guard around
hem when thus beset with peril They can
only become true men and true women as they
tread the path of labor ana duty. If they are
idle, il they are taught to 10 nothing, and TO
know nothing of life's real business and strug-
giles, they must, no matter what may be their
talents or wealth, live and die gnobly. Fathers
AM mothers think Of this, think seriously,
alSxfn q -, a.
around you were forced upon you without your
consent. Say not that YOU cannot hep on
emancipation without entailing poverty upon
your children. II is in your power to be just,
and thus 10 teach them TO BE- Just. Ii Is in
your power to labor, and 10 respect labor, sno
thus to teach them TO labor and respec, lstor.-
And this course must inevitably add, in every
way, TO your and their spiritual and temporal
good; but if otherwise il poverty come te you
and to them, better hug il as heavens richest
boon, than leave wealth TO your children with
out rectitudo of heart or head--without the
ABILITY TO live for some gooo and noble end
Trif,e not, parents, on this subject. Can you
expect your children, with servitude around
thchis ~ or iTugoi, Wise, IN
the nature Of things, while thus situated, that
they will grow in usefulness, as they grow in
age? Is il probable, with the training they re-
ceive, despite Of all your efforts, that they can
remember what man was born to do, and d. il I?
Scratch the green rind Of q sapling, or wan
tonly twist il in the soil
The Scared and crooked oak will tell Of thee
for centuries 10 come.
And, Fathers and Mothers the false notions,
wrong impressions, bad habits, sclfishness, and
dissipation which slavery causes among your
offspring will live forever. The scar or twist
In the oak will perish with the tree itself; but the
Scar upon them, created by your support of the
evil, will mar their moral nature through all the
uture. Oh, Parents think rightly and in sea-
son of your responsibility, and .cT-AcT as be-
comes lofty and pure love, holy and christian
duty.
TyDhos Fever,