The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-10-21
work. Friends, Work.

The season Of inaction Is over. The day for
work has come. Arouse you. Every heart
should be alive, every hand ready for work.
.'But what shall We do?''
Do? Can you ask that question in sincerity?
Do? What shall you not do? Why, friends, it
is the cause Of freedom, of humanity, of intelli-
gence, of happiness, which demands your exeT-
tons, and are yOu al loss TO know what to do!
If you really are at loss, permit us to suggest
fewmodes of acton.
First If you can do nothing more, tall. An
earnest word is deed. Talk. Let youTfnends
and nelghbors know that you are friend of
emancipation. Don't keep the secret 50 eau
tiOusly treasured up in your heart. Love Of free
dom IS indee1 treasure, but it viii not bear TO
be hoanded like the miser's gold. Hoard IT, II
dies. Scatter IT abroad, ii grows, 1t plants it.
self a living seed IN hundred hearts, il becomes
tree Of life, beanng all kinds of good fruits for
nations, for mankind.
Tail thea. Talk to your next door neighboT,
Nh. s.. How do YOU know but that he is
friend Of emancipation? HE'S, as well as your
self, but like yourself, he has hesitated to speak
Day after day you and he have met and talked
the weather over, tall the subject is as dead as
dOor-nail; you have talked about politics, al
though both Of you are heart-sick Of the theme,
and ali the while, subject has secretly inter-
ested you both, yes, has had intense interest for
you as men, as parents, as citizens, a more in
tense interest than any and all other subjects,
and you have never exchanged a word upon il
You profess to know one another, and each is
stranger 20 the best feelings the noblest thoughts
of the other.
This is wrong TO both. 1t Is wrong TO the
cause, 1t IA wrong TO the State. Every good
citizen should speak out his thoughts, should ex-
press his emotions. Silence is more than cow
aplice, 1t is treason 10 humanity and God!
Talk then to Mr.: S.. His heart will re-
spond your own. Then go, both Of you, and
talk to Mr.. l.. He is an emancipsionist
at heart as well as you Then all of you talk
with Mr.. C. He is pro-slavey man, and
almost the only one in your neghborhood; and
hel prc-slavery from habit and accident, rather
than profound conviction. Talk with him ear
nestly. Present your facts, show him your sta
tistics, unfold your reasons, and probably before
next August he will be friend of emancipa-
ton.
"But where shall we get our facts and status
tics?" Do not facts thrust themselves upon you?
CAM you walk over your farm, can you look into
your kitchen, can you listen 20 your children, as
they unite in play with the ignorant colored
children around them, and not find facts enough
As MI. Woodward, OF South Carolina, said in
Congress last winter, slavery itself is fact:
yes, and most disagreeable and moumful fact,
too. And the ignorance, which slavery pTodu-
ces and perpetustes, is a fact; and the moral
degradation, which cast Ivy slavery as its dark
and gloomy shadow, is a fact; and the sloth and
incidence ever attendant upon systems of CON-
pulsory toll, are facts; and the stigma cast up
on labor is a fact; and the RIGHTEOUSNESS, which
must prevail among a people for whom neither
religion nor law sanctions the marriage relation,
is fact. All these'are facts. Would TO Hes-
ven they were fictions. These are facts; what
more do YOU wantl They scarcely need tongue
to interpret their meaning, for they speak them
selves. They have a solemn and impressive ell
oouence, the eloquence of desolation and ruin.
They speel- daily and nightly; do you not hear?
Every tone is the note of a funeral diTge.
So much for facts. And for statistics; where
can you get them? Why, if you can do no bet
ter, tale the Examiner. Take At, we say; do not
borrow IT, but subscribe for it and pay for it.
Subscribe for il, and take il out ofthe Post Office,
ASH You were glad TO get it, and read it openly.
Don't hide it in your coat pocket as you are nd
ing home from the Office, whenever you see per-
son approaching, but keep il out; lei him see it,
and be sure TO tell him that it is an emancipa-
ton paper, and that you take il because il is an
emancipation paper Very likely, hewili express
some asionishment, and will at first take hold of
II with caution as if he were little fearful let
IT might prove a serpent, OF the poison ivy, OF
some other no,ious thing Let him handle it
He will soon fudout that il viii not bite, and
very likely, before his hand has passed over the
four pages, he will ask you TO loan it to him.
Let him have IL, and when he returns it and
says "well, my fnend, that pspertells some i'm
portsnt TRUTHS" suggest TO him the propnefy Of
becoming subscriber. just hnt to him that
long columns Of statistics, cannot be prepared
without labor, that a newspaper cannot be print-