The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-02-05

Of the strongest We have read 1t is, as COM
position, remarkable for its condensation, clear-
ness, force; II has, too, that glow OF eloquence
about II which is sure 10 win the attention, and
command the sympathy. Of all who are prepared
to reason upon the authors facts, or admit his |
conclusions.
A Northern man in writing onSlayery may |
have twofold object; the first being to rouse
the attention Of the free States-to fix their eye
and heart upon the evil-and, by doing so, 10
create, or quicken neral power in them which |
shall be exerted directly and earnestly to reach
and remove it;--the second, to convince tie
South. to persuade it 10 hear, 10 consider, TO act
Mr.. Parker's letter might have embraced, sue
cessfully, both objects. Its array of facts, its
startling contrasts Of the growth and power Of
free aud slave States, its clenching proof as 20
the cause Of this difference, its massive argi-
ments in defence Of justice, could not fail, ii
presented to the Southern mind, to make a deep,
perhaps a lasting and aetipe impression upon Il.
But owing to certain strong expressions-to the
manner in which some of his views are express
sd-to what will be regarded by many as errors
| Of serious import-we fear its circulation will
not be much extended in the South. True, no
man should reject or refuse to consider the truth
Of fact or of reasoning, because Of few mis-
| takes in figures or argument True, also, that
such mistakes do not affect the general correct
result, though Mr.. Parker, "as a man of integ-
rity, writes to each American as a man, having
confidence In his integrity and love of men, and
bids him read with what prejudice he may, but
decide and act according TO reason and con-
| science"
What Mr.. Parker says, for instance, about the
effect Of Slavery upon education 1--WE have pub
lished that is, unquestonably, true. Slavery
retards it; nay, as to that, Slavery prepents its
diffusion. We who wefs born and reared in the
midst Of it, know this as fact. What slave
State has good common schools What one
can claim any thing that looks like good system
of education1 Nothing, worth mentioning, has
been done to instruct the masses; they are, az
their children will likely be, unlsttered, vast
numbers Of them not being able to read the
charter of their liberties, or CLEAN for themselves
the truths of christianity! Spare not Slavery
spare not any cause, which brings this saddeat Of
all misforunes to the individual or infiicts thi;
sorest Of all evils upon the State! Spare moth
ing which keeps fathers and mothers and theii
children in deepest mental blindness But moi
content with doing this, Mr.. Parker adds the fol
flowing sweeping declarations
"Whsnce come the men of superior education
who occupy the Pulpits, exercise the profession
of Law and Medicine, or fill the chairs Of tn,
Professors in the Colleges of the Union Al
most all from the North, from the free States
There is preaching every where. But search
! the whole Southern States for the last seven
and forty years, and it we're hard to show
single preacher of any eminencs in any pulpit
of a slave holding State; a single clergyman re-
markable for ability in his calling, for grea
ideas, for eloquence, elsewhereso cheaper ever
for learning Even Expeditions and Common
taries on the Bible, the most common cle-ica
productions, are the work Of the North alone
whence come the distinguished authors o.
. America the Poets-Bry ant, Longfellow, W hit
, tier; Hstorians-Sparks, Prescott, Bancroft Ju
. rists-Parsons, Wheaton, Story, Kent! Whsnc'
Irving, Claiming, Emerson;--whence all thu
: scientific men, the men of thought. who repre-
sent the Nations loflier consciousness Al
, from the free States, north of Mason and Dix
! on's line :"
D Were these assertions necessary Are the,
correct ? We will not 20 into any Statistics
, But suppose We were to ask, who had ruled TIM
land, chiefly, since the formation Of the Consti
tuition. nav as to that, who rules il now ? Sup
pose we we're TO enquire of Mr.. Parker who hsC
led in Congress in the past, and filled the frs
E Offices Of the nation The South has neve
been wanting in great men. Who may tani
above Marshall, CASTOR, Rutledge, as lawyer
ami Statesmen Who, now, for mental iOrc'
0 and eloquence may over-top Clay, Calhoun
. Preston.
But let US pass from this topic to another
that Of the treatment Of slaves in the South
I Mr.. Parker says:
4 Take the mass Of slaves together, and al
abundance of testimony compels the convection
that they are miserably clad, and suffer bitlerl,
. from hunger.
Again -
"They are disigured and mu,iIated, more b,
the madness Of anger, than by the jealous NAL
ice Of revenge, their backs and sides scored will
the lash, or bruised with the paddle" bea
marks Of the violence needful TO subdue man
J hood, still smouiderng in the ashes of the nsgr'
. slave"
> Again:
4 The lash is always at hand ;--if a slave disc
: beys--the whip; il he is de-the whip; doe
4 he murmur-the whips he sulen and 81
/, lent--,he whip; is the female coy and reuct
{ ant-the whip.
Weare for telling the whole truth on thi
. subject. We would have all men underatar,
the effect slavery has upon them, and their chill
! dren, in every way, and expose cruelty wher
= ever and by whomsoever practised. We wan
Q nothing kept back. Strip naked the who'll
South. make plain the condition of plantation
e Iaborer, and city servant, and II there be an.
b who main, mutilate, or mangle slaves, let thei
names 90 forth, and be branded with universe
T scorn, or if there be any neighborhood, or vii
e lsge, or town, or city, the public opinion o
e which would justify such inhumanity, let it b
: known and marked, the world over, as bye
word for the brutalest inhumanity.
Now, we believe, these statements, as apple,
to communities, or the general public opin
ion Of the South, Enthusiastically erroneous
Bad men-cruel masters--are to be found, an,
the temptation OF the system to injustice Is 81
strong that the weak and passionate cannot re
sist IT. But, as general rule, slaves are wei
fed, well clad, well cared for, as slaves. Tn,
change, as regards their treatment, within tn,
last fifteen years, has been most marked, an,