The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-12-16

sell not only never an sbolitonist. but new.
or an enanciPationist upon any plan which
ever heard proposed. was not an enan.
cipatlonist, because believed that the pow.
er dad not exist. | would not have been,
even though il had existed, unless coupled
with the means for the deportation of the
race. No plan OF that sort had occurred TO
me which seemed feasible. have uniform.
ly voted against the Convention Bill. The
year It passed. ] voted against il in the
Legislature. and opposed it warmly before
the people. the summer the question was
submitted to them.
But holding every opinion heretofore
advanced in these papers. l still regard ne
gro slavery as political misfortune.
That the laws enacted before 1888, had
failed OF any beneficial effect, and that the
evil was increasing upon us learfully. ref
erence TO the statistics Of the respective pc
RODS will demonstrate. A comparison Of
the state of the population before the pas
sage of the law, and at present. will snow
that since that period shere has been none,
or very triAing increase. In 1920, the
total population Of Kentucky. according to
the census then taken, was 564,311', of
which 126,132 we've slaves, leaving the
white population 49,, 5S5. In 1880, by
the same authority, the total population was
6S1.917, of which 1928 were slaves,
leaving 522, 104-which exhibits an in.
crease. within ten wears, Of S5,119. in the
white population. upon basis Of 437 ,5S5;
and an increase Of 38,4Sl, in slaves, upon
a basis Of l26, 1872. If this number OF
slaves gave an increase Of 38,4S1, in the
same proportion 437 ,585 whites should have
given an increase Of 144, 209, whereas it only
exhibits an increase Of So, 1870 that, in
the ten years Immediately preceding the pas
sage Of the law under consideration. the
white population did not increase in the
ratio or the same proportion with the black,
upon the data given, by something like Fifty
thousand souls, difference Of something
like II per cent.-1l per cent. and frac.
lion. The present amount Of the black
population, according to the Auditors re-
port Of slaves listed for taxation, is loo, 6l6,
ten years, including two years before the
passage of the law. Until the census Of
1910 is known, we have no certain means
of determining the increase Of the white
population within the same period. Any
statement upon the subject would be con-
iectural. There is no doubt, however, that,
notwithstanding the immense emigration
from the State. the white population has
increased steadily, and in a ratio nearly
equal to what il was within the former pc
liod. The total valuation of the taxable
property within the Commonwealth, in
1888, as taken from the Auditors books
was S126,6O1, 004 The total valuation
in 1910, excluding that taken under the
equslising law, which was not taken in
1888, is 52i0, 551 ,1s7-exhibiting an in
crease in the capital Of the State. since the
passage Of this horrible law, Of S113, $780,
1873, being very near one hundred per cent.
These are indisputable facts. Let us cast
our eyes within the period Of ten years be-
fore the passage OF this law upon South
Carolina, whose principles and institutions
are an object Of such peculiar admiration
with the Senator from Fayette. Between
1920 and 1880, the increase Of slaves in
that State was Sc. 926; of the whites, 81, :
jlS-a difference Of more than one hundred
per cent. in the increase Of the black over
the white population.
Again. let US compare Ohio with kentuc.
ky and South Carolina, within the same
period-the three States being nearly equal
in population in 1920. Ohio had, al that
period, 5s1. 434; kentucky, 564, 31T; South
Carolina. 502, 741--total population. Star
ting from these nearly equal bases, Ohio,
within ten years. exhibits an increase OF
$50. 469 souls; Carolina. 7S. 444. and Ken
lucky. 1913. 600, including slaves in the lat
ter States. The same astounding facts will
present themselves by comparison Of all
and each OF the slave States with the free.
put it to the people Of Kentucky, whether
the operation of this law has been mischiev-
Gus. | ask them to weigh well their pres
ent position, and consider the CONSEQUENT
ces OF its repeal. The avowed object Of
the repeal Of the law, is 10 satisfy the de-
mand for labor in Kentucky by the intro
duction Of slaves. There is no difference
between the friends and enemies Of the law
as to the effect of its repeal. Let us trace
it. Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia,
contain one million two hundred and forty.
eight thousand two hundred and ninety
slaves. In our commercial relations with
these States. the balance is always against
them. Repeal this law, and who does moi
perceive, that while slaves are cheaper there
than here, this balance will be settled ar
nually, by the introduction Of slaves to the
whole extent of the balance. have ne
means within my reach Of ascertaining wha
this is in amount. Every one knows, how
ever, that it is immense. The laws Of trad,
will indispiiably cause the flow Of this prop
erty into kentucky, until the price is equal
ised between the two countries. While
trader can obtain larger price for bis horse
, and mules in the South, than they cost hin
here, he will export horses and mules; Will
he can, in exchange for them, receive slave
] at a less price than he can obtain for then
. here, he will import slaves. am Of cours
\ understood to mean that the difference il
price must be sufficient to defray the chal
!. ees OF transportation, and reimburse III
n capital with fair profit. In the preser
r. state OF the market, no branch Of trafti
n would be NO profitable as the slave trade b.
4 tween kentucky and the South. The e
= feet Of the law upon the trade has bee