The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-12-23

to maintain her rights and her safety again
all the world. There is but one explain
ton of the facts have. shown. There
but one cause commensurate with the efiec
produced. The clog which has staid ii
march of her people, the incubus which h'
weighed down her enterprise, strangled b,
commerce, kept sealed her exhaustlei
fountains of mineral wealth, and paralyse
ter ants, manufactures, and improvements
| is negro slavery. This is the cancer whic
las corroded her revenue, laid waste he
lowlands, banished her citizens, and swaI
lowed up her production. This is the mag
azine. the least approach 10 which nils he
with terror. This is the slumbering volcs
no which will bear no handling. In
smallest breath 10 fan, the slightest threat L
stir its sleeping but unextinguished fires
Grives her TO madness. Oh! well Nigh
she curse the lyrant who planted this darl
plague-spot upon her virgin bosom.
/ have given the total population oil Var
linip. al tho two periods, and shown lh'
fortunes of the two races az TO their numer
ical progress. In 1890. there were Of whites
544 ,SSl, in 1880, al Gas, showing an in
crease in forty years. Of 1876, 161, or about
IS per cent, little over one third. In
1890, the slave population amounted to
203, 427-in 1880, TO 400, 151, showing an
increase within the same period, of 266,.
$50 blacks, being one hundred and thirty
three per cent. increase on the original num-
Der.
liz we examine the other slave States. we
will perceive the same principle at work.
In North Carolina the black population
has increased in ratio Of one hundred and
forty-Gv per cent; and in South Carolina,
about three hundred per cent. In the for
mer State, the whites have increased IN a
ratio of about thirty per cent. In the latter
a little over eighty per cent. Throughout
il will be found on examination, that within
the period embraced by the census, being
forty years. the black population has in
creased within the slave States, faster than
the white, and comparing the slave States
with the free, that the total population in
creaseS in the latter with far more rapidly
shan the former. The slave States OF this
Union, at the last census, contained five
millions Of people, Of which two were
black. The free States contained eight
millions Of whites. Eight 10 three, is the
between the whites, in these two
sections Of the United States.
Il is in vain to say, that the tremendous
difference already indicated in the growth
Of Virginia and New York, was the result
Of the soil of Virginia. That her lowlands
are poor and exhausted They were not al.
ways so. One hundred years ago, and Viz
GINA below the mountains, was the most de-
srable portion Of America. Her condition
in 1890, proves how much she had been
preferred, and how vastly she had got the
start of all the colonies. Her present pow
erty and exhaustion, are the result OF the
system Of slave cultivation--the most SLOW
emily and the least productive Of any The
skiliul and prudent hnsbandry which has
made the rocky and inhospi,abIe regions OF
New England. adequate TO the support OF
two millions Of people, would have preser.
we'd the plains of Old Virginia in their orr
ginal fertility. But the reason, such as it is
cannot apply to Kentucky. Compare her
with Ohio or Indiana. She, too, has her
mineral moun,ains--her sealed up fountains
Of wealth--her thousand sources Of capital
unopened--but who shall say that her soil
is exhausted "liere grain, and flower,
and fruit, gush from the earth until the land
runs DER" Yet compare her, all lovely as
she is, with Ohio, in all the elements Of so
cial strength and political power, and tell
me the result and the reason? Whether,
then. we compare the planting with the
grain. growing States, or the grain-growing
States with each other; throw but this in
gredient Of slavery into the one, and care
not whether they be equal in all other re-
spects, or whether the slave State have
every other advantage, the fatal influence
of this poison is Immediately perceived. In
1890, Ohio was wilderness. In 1910, il
her population bear the same proportion to
ours that her votes do. she thribbles US in
people, and numbers two millions. The
tolls from her canals amount to 1904 800;
about double our whole revenue. Her rep
resentation in Congress will be in proper,
ton to her people. But why compare her
with Kentucky? With the restless and un.
pausing energy which belongs to commu.
nifty entirely free, she has passed US long
since. She will now take her station, third
in the Union, and Virginia, who twenty
years ago stood first in power and place
Virginia, the nursery Of Presidents, the
mother Of States, the proud, the chIvalric
must yield up her honors, and quietly fall in
the rear of this creation Of yesterday. Yer
ily. these same "Goths and Vandals -the
free mechanics and artisans, the object o.
Mr.. Wicklifie's classic horror-are the
most renowned of cuuquerore. "No. dan
gers daunt them, and no labors tire. They
cut through mountains-they hew down Tor
ests-;hey build up cities-they connec
the ocean with the lakes. the lakes with th'
rivers--they conquer time and sPace--they
subject nature through all her kingdoms an'
in all her elements, to the uses Of men, ant
men multiply and population bounds for
ward, to meet and enjoy the supplies thu
furnished by their victorious industry. 1
comparison Of the history and progress o
the States OF this Union, leaves no doubt
the fact that, in all that constitutes GREATNESS
and power in community-in wealth, il
population, in industry, in fiscal resource
to the government, in multiplied employ
ments, and extended and difiused comfort
| ard intelligence among the great mass {