The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-08-12

press. Slavery retards the misses; tramples
them down into the dust, and keeps them there,
Its effects upon material advance are rotor
eusIy bsd--bad beyond tI.e power Of any man TO
depict M
In the ffee States, the free man finds material
things a means only Of happiness. He uses
them all. There is not product Of earth. nor
power Of water, nor breath of air which he
does not bend TO his will. The steam engine,
painting and putting. as il works up the raw ma
terial, or whirs the traveller from point point;
the water-power, making the whole world tribu-
tary what are these, but The ministers Of free
labor 7 What are they but means Of wealth
and happiness9 They are the results Of free
labor; they belong to IL; and free labor, there
fore, builds up great and Populous States and
cities. and great and prosperous people. In
the South slaves are our laborers, and where are
wei The wafer-courses run 10 waste as
they dash through our half wilderness lands.
We bend not stream nor steam 10 our will, and
yoke them not that they may yield us wealth, or
give US power. None Of these things do We
But instead, we work three millions Of slaves,
irresponsible, ignorant indifferent, idle, and NOT
a year, not a month, not day, which does not
sink us lower and lower in power, which does
not extend our poverty. and weaken our vitali-
~. 2
See how, in consequence, we fall behind the
free States, in population and in wealth.
Shall We compare our ruadst Nature has
done something for us. Where it has not, the
traveller will find few rougher, and no where
harder fare. Shall we compare public improve
mentsl In retums, durability, and amount Of
expenditure, they are ali largely against the
slave States. Nay, as TO that, il is Northern
capital which has constructed half our railroads!
Shall we look TO the value OF landed property,
and compare the increase in the free and slave
States! This is thought to be a sure test. Mon.
led men, and statesmen say, none Is so certain.
Let Us begin then, in 1873 aud take the value
according to the best calculations made, of all
the houses and lands of the eight slave States,
and compare them with the eight free States
Thus: Value OF houses and lands in eight slave
States in 1873: o.
Georgia, North and South Carroll.
ma, Virginia, Maryland, Della
ware, Kentucky, Tennessee, sl97, TAO ,557
Value of houses and lands in eight
Tree States in 1873, viz: New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu-
sets, Rhode Island, Connect
cut, New York, Pennsylvania,
New jersey, s452, 2s5, 7sd
How do they stand nowG Virginia in 1875
valued her real estate at 81 ,225, 1877; in 1889,
at s2ll $50 ,53S New York valued her real es.
tate in l79s, at siO0 $50, 707, in 1885, at $780,.
Isl ,27S. Virginia 1875 per cent increase in
forty-o years; New York 529-9 per cent. in
crease IN thirty seven years. Now, suppose the
eight slave and the eight free States to have in
creased in the same proportion 1.-The Southern
States would in 1889 have been worth, $685.
2s9;l07; the Northern 81 ,715, 261 ,61s. The
free nearly three times as great as the slayel
Yet the slave have larger Territory, better eli.
mate, better soil, larger resources
Why continue these calculations? Why dwell
ON them? Slavery weakens and retartis us every
way, and we knor it. Why not then nd our.
selves of it! Why not heave of the incubusg
IL is monstrous &c uphold an institution 50 ma
lign; monstrous To submit TO so crying an evil;
monstrous IN the extreme, to seek its perpetual
ton. Let US, then, break the thIall, and work
with ali our strength, and all our hearts; by all
constitutional means, until emancipation in
Kentucky be fully accomplished.