The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-10-14

alt is we'll established fact--oile which ad.
mits of no question--that slavery has the effect
10 enhance the value Of white labor, Of every
scription, in the slave States--u,echanies aud
lsborers receive from 30 10 100 per cent. more
for their labor, ii kentucky, than the same
classes receive in the free States OF Ohio, ln-
diana aud Illinois; the same remark holds good
with reference 10 every other branch OF bust
ness.
Slavery, then, is beneficial to the mechanic
and working man, in pee uniary point OF view,
because il enhances the value Of the labor upon
which he depends for support, and thus puts
many Injuries within his reach, which The pro-
ceeds Of his labor would not afford, IN Tree
State. Ii is also beneficial TO him In social
aud political point Of view, because IL lessons
those distinctions in society, which, IN the ifeo
States, are found TO be so onerous and oppres-
sive on the poor man; every white man In a
slave State, stands upon an equality with his
fellow man; the reason OF this Is apparent All
the cheap labor Of the South is performed by
negroes, and vet this is kind Of labor that can
not be dispensed with; If the negroes were dry-
en- out, the whites would, from necessity, be
compelled TO perform such labor, and hence
there would be gradations in society which DO
not now exist in Kentucky. Wealth would be
the sole aristocracy, as is the case IN other Tree
States, and the poor white man would have 10
sink TO the position now occupied by the negro
Are our mechanics and working men willing to
occupy this position; will they aid by their votes
in expelling the negroes, only that they may
I'LL their mental ofhces2 Are they prepared to
aid in forwarding scheme which VIII compel
their wives, their sisters and their daughters to
abandon or be forced from the position OF equai.
~ they now enjoy. and sink them TO the level
Of hired domestics; TO become household drudg-
inn fha m
brush; do they wish 10 see their children black
ing boots, and performing other mental services
now devOlving upon the Degrol Dothey them
| selves wish TO become mere "hewers Of WOOD
and drawers Of waterl" IL so, by all means
| let them vote in favor Of gradual emancipa
ton"
Now, if the slaves States are such paradise
for mechanics, we should think they wouls
pour into them in crowds-that the great diff
Guilty would be TO keep ourselves from beinl
deluged with them. But where do the mechan
les and manufacturers Of the slave States live
Not in the paradise offered to them in the mids
Of slavery-not in the plains Of "the Sum,
South" but among the bleak mountains o
New England. The raw material has very of
ten 20 be taken from the South TO the North
manufactured there, and brought back to In
laborer's paradise from which it started. w
pay the manufacturer in the free States for TAX
ing it away, for manufacturing it, and for bring
ing il back. Some mechanics live in the South
but they have to be paid for residing in thei
paradise. In the language Of Dr. RuffneI
I"Northern workmen cannot he hired i'm tn
South without receiving heavy premium 70
working in a slave State" A. b. c. show
his contempt for some kinds of labor. n
State can prosper where labor is despised.
is despised, and always will be despised, wher
slavery exists. Those who are fully Undue
with the feelings which the system of SLAYER
tends to create, consider it disreputable to car
ry light bundle along the streets. Is it tru
that the laboring man has higher positio
here than he has in the free States1 II A. 1
c. can prove this, he will certainly be entite
to the name of great discoverer. Why, eve
the negro speaks with contempt of 'poOr whit
folks"
We will say something more on this sube'
hereafter. In the meantime, we refer on
readers 10 the North American, on the relatiy
prosperity of the free and the slave States.