The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-04-15

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Is here no triumph? Nay, what though
The yellow t,iccd Of tra'ie meanwhile should
pour
Along its arteries Shrunken flow,
And the idle canvass droOp around the shore
These do not make State
Nor keep it great;
think God made
The Eeaitb for man, not trade.
And, where each humbiest human creature Il
Can stand, no more suspicious or afraid,
Great and kindly in his right of nature,
To Heaven and Earth knit with harmonious
When behold the exultation DID.
OF manhood glowing in those eyes
That had been dark for ages,
Or only liz with bestial loves and RACES
There behold nation.
The France which lies
Between the Pyrenees and Rhine
Is the least part Of France.
| see il rather in the soul whose shine,
Burns through the craftsman's grimy coun-
tendnce,
la the new energy divine
OF Tolls enfranchised glance.
Into that soul we all look: it is that which
lifts up the individual; it is that, also, which
elevates nation, and each thrives as each does
most to improve, purify, strengthen the mind
and heart, and make universal the Christian rule
in all things.
Bat, then, keeping in view the lower con-
sideiatioR-the simple losing or making of mo-
ney-the economy of the thing-and we say.
the only way for people TO thrive is 10 be free.
Count the cost of slavery, after any fashion,
and this result can be made clear TO all There
is no such word connected with it, as hrigpg.
IL is eating, eating our substance every day, and
every hour of every day-paling the glow Of
creative energy in us by its destructive breath
unnerying the moral tone through its debasing
influences. l. proof demanded We have
given it and again; but here it is illus
traled. al least, by new examples, if not in a
new way. And, first of agricultural products:
! An the South New York.
Naiue OF cotton. Agricultural
Iice. sugar, 10 prOducisOf
bAcoo. 1889 s74s66.3lo \. York. siOs.g75.ssi
One free State against all the slave States!
One State away up North, with hard winters,
not over fertile soil, producing than all the
South with its great staples, genial climate, and
rich earth. But pass on, second, 10 the results
of invention-the manufactures Of both sec
lions. as exhibited BY the census:
Free STATES Slave States
Nalne of articles
Manufactured. sIgs l6ss .0ie sia,l7e,is4
spndleS employed
in Lutte Rhode
Island --.--.-------- Si---E >h5oi
Here again the free bound away ahead Of the
slsUe. Nay as TO that, the smallest State in the
Union, Rhode IslOnd, uses nearly twice as many
Spindles as the whole South. Let us proceed
however, thirdly, to the annual earnings of iii,
two great divisions, and thus ascertain the pro-
ductive power of each:
,, Free 81: state, ,s. sl, slave s.; s!si .,s
INA 5. Carolina
New York slaa.soe.aaa Mis:. la sIs9.s2I.7ro
How sadly the South falls behind. Not b.
thousands, bat by millions, and by hundreds o
millions too. And one free State makes NOR
than six of our slave States!. Could we 90 int,
detail. indeed, we might show that one COUNT
in Massachusetts, outstrips South Carolina! Blu
We must hurry to the worst feature Of all--th
educational:
Free states. slave state
scholars in primary
schools. $40 --......1.626Gas 2Di,Os5
Higher Schools .---...-- sa2.3Ss al9ai
latter The smallest t 1919 e slave State 1871
sadtweniy -. a5s66ss i.sis.325
Children at School col
u lege. &c...-----.- s.2l2,4i4 pl,l13
What a fearful contrast, Virginia benin,
/ Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, with foUl
times many scholars, as all the slave States!
Only sec persons "a very few Of these being
native) unable TO read and write in Connecticut
while 20.6l5 free whites Of age in Soutl
| Carolina, and a third of the adults in Ken
lucky are unable 10 read with our enormous
school fund of over a MILLION of dollars:..
Az, count The cost! Count il well, monies
men, laborers, patriots, christians, parents
And YOU will, one and all, find slarerg tn
heaviest source Of expenditure in every rela
ton, the mightiest drain upon purse, bead ant
heart-the saddest, severest draught upon man
hood, that humanity ever endured, or heav
/ en- tolerated. Count The cost in this, or any La
man wrong, and You will admit, that the trues
economy, the surest road to wealth, The Onll
way TO thrive-to call down upon any inst
tutions Of Government stability and growth
is, 10 be just, to do rght--to be Just now--to d.
/ right always.