The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-12-02
For the FxsnIiaer.
Ih0ushss ON S,rndunl Es,uu NC pa lion.


Thoushss ON GrndnnI Emancipation.
No arrangement of Providence is more won
deriul than, that, in he long run, the wrong-doer
Is the sufferer, however great, for the time be-
ing, may be the snifsrngs Of those TO whom the
wrong IS done. Who can read the touching ac-
counts of the protraeted sufIernl,s of the meek
and gentle Louis the XvIth, when the iron en-
tered into his soul, or the still more affecting
narrative of the slow martyrdom OF his almost
infant son, but mustfeel solemnised by profound
reflections upon that awful law, which visits
"the sins of the father upon the children TO the
third and fourth generation. How guiltless
were these sufferers compared with tine long line
OF their absolute, treacherous. and tyrannical
ancestors! and yet how bitter their sufIerings!
and how much more bitter than the suilerings of
most of the myriads who had been undone by
the wrongs Of their predecessors! Surely, the
living race of Shareholders are little to blame,
compared with those OF their forefathers, who
were consentlng or instrumental to the introduce
ton OF the enormous evil upon this continent
But who, that has lived for years under the sad
system, but is made constantly to feel, that
physical are the chief evils inflicted upon the
slave, whilst MoeAL are the evils by which he is
avenged upon his master.
If called to place finger "exacty where the
shoe pinches," WAT careful observer would not
at once designate, the effect of the system upon
the young men of Kentucky? There, where the
political economist the enlightened christian,
and the anxious parent, look with the deepest
solicitute for signs of encouragement and hope
for the Republic, N time to come-there espe-
cially, and there aaphatically the enormity OF
the evil, stands outsyith greatest prominence!
good many years ago, the writer was be-
| nlghted upon rather obscure road, in a some
what distant and retired county of the State.
His travelling companion proposed applying for
hospitality at the nearest dwelling, with some Of
whose inmates he lad been acquainted. 1t was
the abode of widow OF good substance, whose
husband had fallen victim to the harlships Of
opening new falm. At the time Of the faith
er's death, her Oldest son was about fourteen.
In the absence Of the cruel system which OPP
presses the noble heart of our country, that son
would have risen. as thousands of Others under
similar circumstances, in the free States, have
done, to be the head of the farm, a father TO his
iatherless brothers and sisters, and the comfort
and stay of has widowed mothers heart. But
alasl There was tiusty old family servant up
the farm. He usurped the place of a dutiiul
and heroic son, and that son, of course, grew up
idle, dissolute, wandering in his tastes and
habits; and inficting isI more anguish upon his
poor mothers heart, than al, her other cares and
soTows put together. II must be admitted that
such n case might harthappened anywhere. All
The same time, it must be confessed that our in
stitutionS hold out a kind of bonus for such base
wOTthlessness.
What kind Of material for the most part,
has old Kentucky sent TO Mexico, in the late
war, for the cannon aud disease? The sons,
chiefly of small Shareholders, (and some Of
largeD whose extra leisure had long been EN-.
ployed, in eultiyating tastes and habits IN.
compatible with peaceful and useful pursuits.
In what free State are there so many loungers
amongst the young men. upon the payements Of
our chief inland villsgesF Where else, at mid
day, and in busy seasons, can grown up young
men be found, practising the sublime art O
chucking marblcsi Where does larger pro
portion Of those growing into manhood, utteil!
disappoint the hopes of their anxious parents
1t was to relieve these irom hard work--ii wa
TO lay up for them more ample patrmonial es
tates, that slaves were a, first purchased. And
most righteous hnt most terrible Ietribuiion! II
is upon these that The tarse Of idleness-ths
curse Of the aHowancgof spending-money--ths
cursa Of pampered aad unbridled passions has
chiefly fallen Nor can The curse be removed
till they are again resibrcd to the trulydignifed
and exalted employment of the plough and the
scythe. A. Oh