New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-11-06
Prospects Of Emancipation In Kentucky

From the Louisville Examiner.
Careful inquiry, and particular observation have
satisfied u.s. that there anti slavery sentiment IN
Kentucky, enough 70 do whatever itmay determine
10 do.
We speak deliberately Not measuring others
by our own feelings. or Judging of public opinion
from partial and ever jealous friends but going up
and down among the various classes OF society and
letting men speak for themselves. and OF slavery
as they please. we may say we kaor, that the
people OF this State are ripe for change. and eager
Tor emancipation The idb0ring classes. so far as
we have been able 10 reach them. avowed in pri
vate their hearty desire for IT, They present, H.
many respects, a noble example of endurance and
patience The curses OF slavery fall upon them
heavily. II they be young, and unmarried, they
feel as they toll, that hundreds pity them, ana
look upon them as degraded II they have families
and are gathering shout them the rich treasures OF :
faithful love they knOp thst these their loved OF
spring ~ither aud may parish beneath the CALLING
blight of human servituds. Yet induging In no r.
v.9geul teelings and looking alone 10 legal reform
they cav for sskes for the sake Of children,
for the good OF all ought and must destroy slave
~" The mercantile inSress especially 10 tbs towns OF
The interior. almost unanimous for freedom slavery
cripples them 10 every way. Farms stocked with Ne
groe, bring them DO customers and these farms multi
piled drive away the whites who would buy Of them
TIE intelligent merchant sees What will make him
thrive increase bis income. give value to bic property
what alone insure anything Ike permanency 10 that
income or the value OF that property Without a. in
ereAsnc populsticn-wiihout a producing population
ercAnts interests must diminish, ano. therefore. our
ousne.s men whether influenced BY other and stronger
considerations or not cay let US have emancipation.
that the way may be OPP ned for imm grants snd our
counties filled up, and our towns made TO increase -
Why hold on 10 slavery when II prevents thsf "hy
continue q system which impOverisnes the msny. and
de.Seps the enterprise OF the Statel We want II
moved We willing to work Tor its removal Il eth.
srs will only lead
n.ha alt uf ~ bee d A~
railing and are s operating to repress 70 some extent
thu voice of the Church. 10 shs toe convictions vi re-
Hsious men The tear. that the discussion Of slavery
will wider and nercer DIVISIONS and tnst VA me
,rueela pie,y would Do forgotten and religion irsmped
under foot kept them messursoly silent But tnis
esr ard all other rstsrci0g causes are fas, passing
away Aud as they pass away and The csimer psrses'
Sons Of reason snd DUTY heard religious men begin
10 re azs the startling fact that they true q their
professions aud their God slavery cOunot long exist
We say starting fact for hos Can Il be otherwise when
fbsr os.ioa 10 do utter darkness thousands OF
humsn beings who cannot while they are slaves read
tho Gospel ard th rusHnds upon thousands more OF
whites, who through the evils inseparsbly connect
with slavery driven y ruin lnis Is isAriul 70
possibility 10 meet IL 10 dreadful 10 look upon. OF
think about. But from an extended correspondence,
And personal intercourse, " i'm nesr hundred clergy
men of the STATE are satisfied mat large nuHoer
Of Dvnes and by far the larger poruon o. tner con
greg-uons are preparing the only Alternative iei
strong hearty earnest rts!stsDco 10 slavery Wnsrs
else should look TOR such resistance Ga What else
religion, and It's spread, can inciscuas or ih-
state build hope. The church. iheD. cslnot ister u
vii noi oering its msster and bis sacrifices hold
back much longer
And .lavehoiiers, as class, are gettirg more and
rnofe wiling every day not only % hear slavery de
cussed but 10 discuss. consider II themselves Not
suoel6cAIy either some suppose no; simply 10 ia
psunisry relations a. majority believe, but through
y in ali i,s FERNS and relations Oas OF the strongest
~, .l.verv men we know. writes Us agree fully 10
xh, YOU cay and If slavery be sin or the holding OF
.lsvs. SIN If they ought 10 De educated, Il tbs Law
boud nroblbt their being sod except BY families let II
- hoixo,hs sooner the better. AZ VOC reason on
,hsse subject. viii read aud consider ane kno~ Lew
w0o hold negroes who Will not Soaa 90 Ja,.ce 70
,b- hl.nk man az the strongest suss.nfy o. setuns
Inv.elt ard securing II for my race hereafter.
All men slaveholdrrs look 70 what tney oe@ az lu "a
tsr,st sud msny Of them. perhaps large msJo'J -
or 4, sred a, nrst thst any movement se-nst sAeiy
would ruin them While in this belief, my we're re-
l.,,. uneasy. violent But eloser ex-minsnoo' sDa
cooi., ,housht nave given . goodly portion OF tnen
larger visws They rapidly realizing one lack 'n.'
no co,tlier system ever devised Tor nAn 10y
are hssinnins 10 fe that IL povershes them snd TIE
saps and thAi religion. patriotism and every many