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

but eradual-systematic, but dIscreet-.ousht to |
be adopted for reducing the mass Of coil phich 10
pressing gpoE the South, and HiH still more pTess
upon her the longer IL is put IF. We Ought not
to shut our eyes nor avert our faces. And though
we speak almost without hope that The Com
mittees or the Legislature will do anything at
the present session 10 meet this question, yet
we say now, in the utmost sincerity of our
hearts that our wisest men cannot give too much
Of their attention 10 this subject-nor can they
give il too soon"
Well, the system of slavery still exits in Vir-
GINA, and all its blghting influences are still ac-
tive there. But where is the voice Of her SEN
tinel7 Alas, its clarion tones ring no longer
with warnings against the perpetuaton of sla-
very. The eye that then was panied as it wan
dered over fields desolated by slavery, is panied
no longer. Instead of calling on his fellow-cit-
liens 10 unite together in the great and glorious
work Of redeeming the State from a system Of
bondage that blights the joys of home, and with
ers the flowers of social happiness, as well as
sears and blasts the fields, he is now engaged in
lustifying those who seek TO perpstuate this
bondage, and in eondemnng as traitors all who
echo the sentiments that ne spake years ago
when his mind in the freshness and full
ness Of its strength
Virgins has, since Mr.. Richie so eloquently
denounced the whitening influence Of slavery,
been experiencing still more bitterly its many
bitter evils. Her patriotic are deHerting the
hesrths of their forefathers for stranger homes.
h. r. - al.
girding themselves for race Of true national
greatness and renown, are every year enriched
with immigrants from Virginia whose hearts
have siskoned IA thsy contemplated the intsnss
curse of slavery, as it lay like n black cloud on
the soil and exhaled its pestilentia influences on
the social circle. Such men, the very bone ant
sinew Of Virginia, the worthy descendants o.
those great and good men who were nourishet
on her bosom in the last century, are desertinl
their native homes for others in the State,
where slavery is not known, and where the sol
and society are not suffering from any hopeless
paralysis of their energies. Our own Com
monwealth is not yet so far gone in the fata
embrace of slavery, but that she is able to rail-,
her energies and throw the incubus from he
breast. We rejoice that the example of tn
mother State has not been lost on the daughter
and that Kentucky, looking at the ruin and des
Olation that slavery has brought on Virginia
has resolved, before il is too late, to redeem her
self from thraldom, and to stretch out her han.
and grasp the greatness and prosperity whiel
nothing but the wretched system of African
slavery can prevent her reaching. The COLLAPSE
Of Virginia's greatness is one of the most mel
ancholy of spectacles. Let Kentucky be warne,
by her example and be wise before il is too late
before the fatal system has, like foul canker
eaten too far into her strength to permit her 4
rise.
There are no people who cherish the feelin,
of State pride more devotedly than Virginians
SO profoundly are they attached TO their State
that they would not think Of expatrating them
selves under the influence of any force othe
than that Of necessity. They look around then
and they see nothing but wreck and ruin an
desOlation. There is no sign of prosperity il
all the wide landscape before them. Fields one
fertile, but now smitten with steriliEy, frown il
every direction, and there is nothing TO chez
them in the present, or to stimulate their hope
of the future. A leaden lsBguor reposes on ever
interest. They then cast their eyes toward
those younger commonwealth that have re
Gently started on the career Of nation al prosper
ity and rsnown. The contrast is overpowerine
and with signs upon the lip and tears upon IN
cheek, they bid adieu TO the old familiar thing
that make the haunts of their boyhood prseiou
to their hearts. Go where you may in Ohio
Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, and yo,
will find men who have been driven, reluctant
Iy, from NE Old Dominion. Ask any one O
the thousands you will there find, why he lei
his early home, and there is but one answer |,
that question. Slavery is banshing from vir
giHia large majority of her best and most en-
terprising sons. Every year her case become
more hopeless, and unless she speedily rises an,
with the strength still left her, throw off the in
cubus, she must sink lower and lower in the no
iitical horizon. Can any kentucklan look a
Virginia and refrain from vowing eternal hOstil
ity to slavery