The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-02-26
NUMBER 81,

Jure with" and from the CITY Of Louisvflls a
e~sPaPer is sent abroad, Within and to IN.
South and East of that State, devoted 10 the
doctrines Of frsedom, conducted with singular
talent and right feeling, and sxerting sensible
and extensive influence. A Governor on VIZ
GINA, not long ago, proposed to his Legislature
the enactment Of a law giving 10 the respect
i've counties the power 10 expel eolored people
beyond their limits The non-savehOldfng farm
ers, west Of the Blue Ridge, thanked him .for
teaching them that word" They did not an
prove the particular application recommended
Of this new principle in legislation; but already
there Is much speculation about State law, au-
thorizing the counties severally to abolish
slavery within their own borders. Delaware
seems on the verge Of emancipation, and pant
ing for the untried prosperity il will bring
There are indications that Maryland will not b
very far behind. The institution which her
Representative does not think ought TO be- spok-
en- OF here, is discussed very freely in her DWELL
ngs and by her road Sides An uneasiness IN
der the burden that so Expresses freemen is
working in Western North Carolina and East
ern Tennessee. In Georgia, il report says true,
the causes of the depression of the white labor
ing man are engaging a constantly increasing
attention, and there are whispers that the thing
is whispered even among the sandlilLers Of
South Carolina But whether more or less de-
veloPed in one place or another, i take it TO DO
ung uestiOnaole that desire for emancipation
prevails, to an extent already not incOnsidera-
bic, among the non-slavehOlding population Of
the Southern country. And il has healthy
rOO., and must grow. They are coming to see
tina. for the welfare of the whole, and especially
for their own, IL is necessary that the nuisance
be abatsd. Attention is getting fixed upon thai
great political truth The balsfal PoiifieaI AZ
Dscr of the Stare Question stands out in thelight
Discussion Of il must take place, and muztla-
falibly end in confirming, enlightening, and
guiding To practical issue, the sense Of its
realty, and Of the obligation 10 seek a remedy
so that, as | view the case, this is by no
means a geographical and sectional question, as
the gentleman from North Carolina understands
IL, page ii . and as il is made TO appear in tho
Resolutions of Mr.. Calhoun, one great point Of
whose sagacity is, to present different issues
from the true ones The question is not al all
between North and South, but between the
many millions of non-slaveholding Americans.
North, South, East, and West, and the very
few hundreds Of thousands of their fellOw-eiti-
zens who hold slaves. 1t is time that this idea
Of "a geographical distinction Of parties, with
lation to this subject, was abandoned. Ii mas
no substantial foundation. Freedom, with its
fair train Of boundlsss blessings for white and
black-slaVery, with its untold miseries for
bOth-these are the two parties in the field; and.
III
collected, would be Outnumbered by the popu-
latiOn Of the single city Of New York, while
the name of the other host is Legion. cannot
therefore attach my importance TO the hint
which the gentleman threw out, towards the
close Of his remarks, of what ''the South
might think il necessary 10 90, if the anti
slavery movement were too much pressed, page
10 On this point he spoke forbearingly, and
in a strain which contrasts most agreeably with
language to which these walls have listened IN
some other times. j have something to say
upon the subject, but DO not feel called upon
to bring II forward Till some further occasion
shall arise will now only express my delib-
crate and undOubting conviction, that the time
has quite gone BY, when the friends of slavery
might hope anything from an attempt TO move
the South to disuniOn for its defence. When
they raise that question seriously, their non
slavehOlding neighbOrs-With their majority Of
more than six votes 10 one, even in that region
will settle il for them very quietly and effeetua
ly, through the baliOt-bOXes. And il is alto
gether likely they will then 90 farther yet, and
say, Gan evil which has all along annoyed, dis
graced, and kept down, and which no.S asks
for lis support the overthrow Of our wise form
Of government. Is no more to be tolerated Our
interests, OFF peace, our safety, demand lis ex-
tirDatiOn." 1 DO not believe il is good policy
for the shareholders 20 let their neighbOrs hear
them talk of disuniOn. Unless | read very stu
pidly the signs Of the times, il will not be the
Union they will thus endanger, but the interest
10 which thew would sacrifice it, II they in
sist that both cannot stand together, they may
be- taken at their wOrd-but 1t is THE UNIOS
THAT MUST STAND.