Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-05-19
SALEM, OHIO, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1913.


by industrious a~rtizans, and returned to US to
meet our wants.
Suppose we look n, this subject in another
point of view, and contrast the actual condi-
ton of the people Of Kentucky, as a whoe
with the people of Ohio, as regards the cum
foris of life. What is there which the arti-
Fan Of Ohio wants that he cannot obtainl He
has good schools for his children; a good
house,; a good and cheap market; facilities Of
travels; cheering neighhorhood acquaintance
a motive to labor, and the means of making
life happy. He has the church near BY, and
the school-house, steady employment, fair
pay 70. that employment; and, if he De ener-
getic and industrious, a certainty Of indepen-
dence and an opportunity TO get up In the
world. The artizan and day-laborer in the
free States, feel, PROFESSIONALLY, the bad e-
fects of a hot competition; but notwithstan-
ding this great evil, the vast majority Of them
are enabled to co well and TO live well-io
enjoy the real comforts of life. Turn now 10
the same class in our own State. We can
not shut our eyes to the fact, that, compara-
lively speaking, they have few of the advan-
| tages common 10 the Ohio artiZan and day
laborer. Begin the contrast with the homes
in which they live-the facilities Of market
and of travel-the motives to labor, and the
pay of labor-the advantages Of church and
school, and in one and all Of them keniuck-
ians ara behind their neighhors!
Take still another view. Look at the ca
pabilitles of Massachusetts, as developed, In
comparison with the capabilities OF Ken
lucky. Boston is the centre Of a web OF rail-
roads extending in every direction. She is
united with the lakes in the West; with New
York in the South west; and soon she will
reach the st. Lawrence and the far North
with her iron tracks, while every part of the
State, almost, is bound together by railways.
What is the consequence Not merely that
her wealth is doubled and ireabled, but that
every industrious citizen within her borders
enjoys to the full, all the necessary comforts
of life. What Massachusetts is, we may
learn only by seeing it. The eye takes iu,
and the hart feels the untold blessings
which an advanced civilization brings to her
citizens; but the pen cannot describe IT. Nor
is Massachusetts content with combining her
own good within her borders. Look at the
late remarkable purchase Of The Michigan
Central Railway by Boston capital, Michi-
gan undertook to build this road; she failed.
Her credit, as a State, was lost, and her pub
lie works, half completed, of no use 10 her,
Boston men at this luncture slept in, puroha.
sed the road-restored the credit Of the State
,hereby--and will soon establish a railway
connection between Detroit and St. Joseph's
And where in the mean time is Kentucky!-
What has she done-what is she doing-ir
developing her resources by judicious public
works, and thus adding 10 the comforts, ant
extending the civilization of her peoplel-
Alas. she is a strong man bound down Il
the earth! Her arm is not %uplifted, and he
voice is not heard in the glorious cause. She
looks on hopeiessly, almost at the progress;
Of such a State "a Massachusetts, despalrlng
of ever accomplishing the half she has &C.
complished. And wherefore is itsol Why
this differencel 1t is alone the resultof tree
labor. Nothing else cluses it. Massachu'
sets is free-Kentucky cursed with slavery,
and hence the former enjoys so much of pros
periiy, while the latter, in her very youth.
looks as if in the decay of age.
But it may be said, in reply, that Ohio is
an exception, and that Massachusetts is ar
old State-that she has been for c~enturie:
garnering up the wealth and comfort she now
possesses-and 1t is unfair to contrast Ken
lucky with either. So be it. Look, then
if it please ye, Kentuckians, at Indiana, Ia.
king energy as a test Of the possession o
, comfort and progress-This State, some
twelve or fifteen years ago, hogan most injur
diclously, a grand system Of public works.
She failed in completing it, and lost besides
D her credit. One portion OF her system pro
2 posed a canal from Lawrenceburgh to Cam
bridge; another, a railroad from Madison L
Indianapolis. Both were begun. But whel
the State failed, it became evident that the,
must be abandoned They were abandoned
What did the citizens on these lines, unde
these circumstances. They did not send a
agent to the east to obtain a loan; they di
4 not 90 to the banks of their own State TO boz
y row the means; they did something bette
than all this, they put their shoulders TO I'll
wheel. and by their OWn labor and mean:
4 have completed these two lines Of publ
h works. Where has this kind Of energy bee
manifested in kentuckyl In what part Of
have our people stood by each other in hi
d spirit At what time, when the State hi
failed to carry on, as she promised TO do, oil
II public works, have our farmers and merchan
n acted as these men of Indiana have donel-
We cannot disguise the fact. II we look
our elder sister, Massachusetts,, or our you
ger sisters Ohio and Indiana, we see the san
IN truth illustrated. IT'S free labor that max
prosperity. IT'S free labor that makes m,
ye and the State grow. IT'S free labor that fl
At the land with churches and school houses
" with light and liberty--and with every CO
ii v%enience and comfort of life.-LouispiN z
NJ Gminer.
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