The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-12-30

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slayeis. VIII be materially reduced. 1t vii
I las have little operrlioa beneficial d
= otuefwAe. upon the prasent generation o
either whites or b kEs Its benefits 70,
BOD races are mos J respective. 1t af
fOra amph time society to accommo
dat1 tsslf e the new state Of things. |,
makes no uddendisprbssceof the relation
of master and slase. There will be a grad.
ual substitution d free white for black slave
labor. and no layse amount Of blacks will
be emancipated at me sane time. Whilst
the white population viii in fifty years have
more than trebled. the black from eiporta-
ton, emigration, colonization, and other
causes will not iacesss much from what it
now is. The one will be two millions
whilst the other. viii BE- only about three
hundred thousand, We husbands of the
freed females being kstin bondage. will
mostly retain the wives also in the service
of their former masters. The piior right to
have the children apprenticed to them till
twenty-one years old, should b, secured to
the former owners Of the wives. The moth.
ers will almost universally stay BY their chill
dren, and they will be thus saved from
vagrancy, and the children afforded the
best sort Of pupilage or apprenticeship.
The wives will find that support for them.
selves will be nearly as much as they can
earn any where, and their brmer owners
will find ample compensation from the la
Dor of the wife and The apprenticeship Of
the children to afford them food and clothing.
The three large adjoining free States will
unavoidably. if not willingly. absorb more
than half Of those that finally become Free
With two millions OF white population in
our State. the intermixture of at most some
TWO hundred thousand free blackx can be
no great grievance.
The rights and interests Of the present
owners Of slaves, are all that need be- taken
into view upon any question Of right or
Justice. The rights of those who may here.
after become owners of slaves, not now born
are in no way involved. This plan takes
from the pocket Of the present owner moth.
ing. or so little, that he cannot appreciate
the pecuniary loss. The unborn issue OF a
female slave is estimated at very little. In
the judgment Of most men, it does not, con-
stitute tenth Of her marketable value-in
other words purchaser would not abate a
tenth in the price Of young woman on
account OF her barrenness. The chance Of
male or female issue being equal, the value
of the chance OF female issue alone canaol
then, be more than one twentieth OF her price.
That on an average price OF $500 would
be only some SIS. Nor does the plan leave
the owners Of slaves, as class, altogether
for even this slight loss. 1t
will be fully compensated. without estimating
the increase in the value Of land resulting
from an increase OF white population by per
manent prohibition against the importation
oil slaves, thus giving owners The monopoly
of the Kentucky market, where slaves will
necessarily increase in value as they dimin-
ish in number. Besides all pretence of in
Justice to the owner is obviated by the fact.
that he will, as now, be at liberty to export
his slave to southern market, where he
can obtain more for her than she is worth
at home. But upon what principle Of Jus
tice can the slave holders, who constitute so
small minority, insist upon keeping in the
State for their exclusive benefit. species
of property which is 50 greatly detrimental
to large majority Of the people Of the
State. So use your own as not to injure
another, is a principle of universal justice.
The carrying out ssch system of gradu-
al emancipation is no experiment The
examples of New York, New Jersey, and
Pennsylvania. show that il can be done
without detriment or failure. There is no
doubt about the substitution of free white for
black labor, and the chances are tina, it
will be as cheap. et
II has been long cherished hope with
many of the friends Of emancipation in this
State, that whenever itcommenced, it might
be accompanied with system Of African
Colonisation, which would remove the
blacks from Kentucky as fast as they were
emancipated. This is to be desired if it
be practicable to accomplish it.
But the principal anxiety felt in favor ofco-
lonization is probably owing TO avery exag
gerated estimate Of the evils to be Eel, from
having a free black population. If the
whole of the slaves, near two hundred
thousand. were pow to be get free and remain
among US with our present white population
of only 100000, the grievance would no
doubt be very heavy. But fifty years hence,
when the proposed plan shall take effect,
according to fair calculation we shall have
a white population Of two millions, whilst
the blacks if they all remain here, will
not much exceed two hundred thousand; and
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