The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-08-19

inon diffusion Of knowledge and the raualiz,-
ton of society. The private schools Of the
South divide men into patriciafs end piehsiuns.
80 that, In the latter, u nuisance grows out Of
tdacaton itself intIIe public schools Of New
York, there are libraries now amounting TO
more than million Of volumes. In the Sc ools
ef Massachusetts, the humber Of volumes Is rel
stiysly less, but the quality Is greatly superior
In each of these States, within half an hours
walk Of the poorest farmhouse or meohanic's
shop, there Is library, free aud open to every
child, containing works Of history, biography
travels. ethics, natural science, Sc, &c. which
will supply him with The noblest capital of in
telligenco wherewith 10 commence the business
Of making himself a useful and intelligent eli.
zen. With the exception Of New Orleans,
Whose free schools were commenced and have
been presided over by Massachusetts man, J
and three or four other Cities all The libraries In
the public schools Of the slave States co1ld be
carried In school boys satchel. The Libraries
Of all the universities and colleges Of the Sonia
contain 223,4l6 volumes; those III the North.
993,e9I volumes. The Libraries Of southern
Geological schools. 22,sDo; those Of northern,
Look into the silliman'u Journal, or the vol
umes Of the American Academy of Arts and
seienees' and Inquire whence the Itica-
lions come. Where live the historians Of the
country, Sparks, Prescott, Bancroft; the poets.
Whittier, Bryant, Longfsllow, Lowell; the ju-
ns's, story, Kent, Whea,oni the classic models
| OF writing, Charming, Everett, Irving; the ft
niale writer's, Miss Sedgwick, Ms. Siyeurheg,
AID Mrs. Chids7 All this proceeds from no
superiority Of natural endowment on the one
side, or inferiority on the other. The southern
States are all within what may he called s.th<
ATTITUDES Of genius" for there is ANAL belt
around the globe. comprising bat few degrees
L ol WI hau ~ad
g1ished men who have ever lived. say this
difference results from no difference ia natural
endowment; the mental endownients at the
south equal TO these In any part Of the
world; bat II comes, because in one Wssrter he
es'mmon siInosphere s,sivifrd x,th ktpN losgs,
electric with IDEAS, wlhle si1ysEs RatAea ia
Brotan fog< ever The oasF. Wh.f ~ hlaat
Id. ss ss.. 70 .s our . 49,. : ss .. s
intelligence and ii,dafttial prsssls,klY Of oas
country. f-ltfe
Il may seem little cut II place, htit can.
| not forbear here adserting 10 one point. which.
as lover Of children ard a parent, touches me
more deeply than any other. To whom are en-
trusted al the South the early care and nurialre
Of emldreng-lt has been thought by many sslu-
catoH and metaphysicians, that children learn
as much before the age of seven yearS as ever
| Afterwards. Who, at the South administers his
early knowledge-these IDEAS, these views, thai
have such sovereign efficacy in the formation
Of adult character! Who has the custody of
children during this ductile, forming, receptive
penod OF hie-a period when the mind ab
serbs whatever is brought into contact with
~ Sir, the children Of the South, more or
less, and generally more, are tended and nnr-
tured by slaves. Ignorance, superstition, ,ul-
CAVITY, passion, and perhaps impunty, are the
breasts at which they nurse. Whatever other
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whatever other mereies lie may withhold, NAV
he give me none but persons Of intelligence, Of
refinement, OF moral excellence, 10 walk with my
children during the initiative years Of their ex-
lstence, and lead them in the paths of knoWl-
edge, and breathe into their hearts the breath of
moral life.
Before considering tie moral character Of
slavery, wish TO advert for a moment TO the DO
slton which We occupy as one OF the nations OF
the earth, in this advancing periodof the worlIs
civilization. Nations, like individuals, have
character. The date of the latter is counted 10y
years; that OF the former by centuries. No man
can have any self-respect who is not solieitUus
about his posthum0us reputation. No man can
be patriot who feels neither JOY nor shame at
the idea OF the honor or OF the infamy which his
age and HIS country shall leave behind them
Nations, like individuals, have characteristic 90.
lects Of ambition. Greece coveted the ats;
Rome gloried in war; but liberty has been the
goddess OF our idolatry. Amid the storms OF
freedom were we cradled in the struggles at
freedom have our POINTS been knit; on the rich
ahment Of freedom have we grown 10 our ppss-
ent stature. With a somewhat 100 b0astiinl
spInt, perhaps, have we challenged the adnna-
ton Of the word ioT our devotion % liberty; tut
an enthusiasm for the rights OF man is 80 holy a
passion that even its excuses are not devoid Of
the beautiful. We have not only won fIeedcm
for ourselves, bat we have taught its sacred lis
sonsto Others. The shout OF "Desth to4yrafts
and Freedom fof man." which pealed, through
.s os.n..y ;f fks fIssis and s
given an attentive ear 10 the sounds Which hare
come back % US, within the last few months,
from the European world, cannot have failed TO
perceive that they were only the faT-tTavellisd
echoes OF the American Declaration OF Intlepen-
dence. But in the divine face OF our liberty
there has been one foul, demoniac feature
Whenever her votaries would approach her to
worship, they have besaif ain to draw a vsil
over one part OF her viSSge 10 conceal lis hdeous
ness. Whence came tins deforImty on her
otherwise fair and celestial eountenancei Sad
is the story, but it must be told Her mother
was vampire. As the daughter lay helpless in
her arms, the beldam tore open her living flesh,
and Toasted upon her life blood. Hence this uil-
slightly wound, that sifnghts whoever beholds it.
But, sir, must leave dallying with these ambi,,-
uous metaphors One wtnis the plain sinewy
Saxon tongue, TO tell the deeds that should have
shamed devils. Great Britain was the mothet
Her American colonies were, the daughter. The
Mother lusted for gold. To get 1t, she made part
nen;hip with robbery and death. Shackles,
chains, and weapons for human buichtry, weIe
her outfit in trade. She made Africa Ter hunt
ing-gTound. She made its people her Prey, and
the unwilling colonies her maTket-place. She
broke into the Ethiop's home, az a wolf into q
sheep-fold at midnight She set the continent g.
fame that she might SEIZE the affrghted inhabs-
tanis as they rap shTieking from their blazing
hamlets. The aged and the infants she left foI
the vultures but the strong men and the strong
women she drove, scourge1 and bleeding, 70 the
shore. Packed and slowed like merchandise be-
tween unventilated decks, so close that the TEN.
pest without could not ruf1le the pesailential air
within, the voyage was begun Once day the
matches were opened to receive fool, and dis
gorge the dead. Thousands and thousands Of
corpses, which she plunged INTO the ocean from
the decks Of her slave-ships, she counted only as
the taIe Of commerce. The blue monsters Of
the deep became familiar with her pathway !;
and, not more remoreless than she, they shared
her plumber. At length the accused vessel
reached the foreign shore. And there, monsters
of the land. fercer and Teller than any that roam
the watery plains, rewarded the robber by pun
chasing his spoils.
For more than century did the madness Of
this traffic rage. During all those years. the
clock Of eternity never counted osf a minute
that did not witness The cruel death, by treach-
cry or violence, Of some son or dau,lkter, some
| father or mother. Of Africa. The ttrns million
af slaxas that now dsrkan aur sapz{jer hz1iyns.
are the progeny OF those T,rogenitofsk a dooinsd
race, fated and suffering from sire 10 son. Hut
| the euormties Of the mother couatry did not
/ pass without remonstranre. Many Of the col.