The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-11-18

we were wont to see. we fad our ladies in their
teens" with sickly constitutions, attenuated
forms, and the stoop of old age. True. they are
still lovely; but how much more SO, would they
be with form full Of strength and life, and a
cheek glowing with vitality. Do you wish to in
vigorste the constitutions of the young Then,
give US no more negToes-put your boys and
girls to some active employment-raise them to
industry"
Another member, whose name is not given,
John Randolph once said, with tremendous Sc
verify, and what every intelligent and high
minded STAKEHOLDER feels,) TO those who talk
about the example of the Jews and the conduct
of the apostles. He puts the matter on the only
honest ground, and at least as tenable as any:
''Mr. Chairman, cannot gothic whole length
with gentlemen ON either side of this question;
and, and, while do not consider slavery a bles-
sing, or acknowledge it to be of divine origin, as
some gentlemen have contended, donot believe
II TO be fraught with all the evils with which il
has been depicted by others. Those texts Of
scripture which have been alluded to, as proving
that 1t is by divine night, were addressed alone
to the Jews. am not prepared to admit that
we are the Jews, nor can contend that we have
done anything to entitle us TO the application of
"the peculiar people of God
"We must recolect that we are now in pow
er, and construe them for our own benefit as
applying to ourselves, and giving us the right
to say, who are ''the heathen." Once let the
tables be turned, and those who may then have
the power TO judge, will claim the right to Judge,
and as emphatically decide that they are the
people Of God, and that all others are heather,
nd mir 10 nd 10 tha;. -. A
inheritance" Sir, it is not to be disguised,
that slavery, although sometimes, by dirine per-
mission, is matter ofcivil policy, and one phere
porer, and potoer alone giUes righf-it is a case
emphatcally for the application of the motto OF
Rob Roy the great highland chief
''The good e!a rule suiiceth him-the simple plan,
1$ahs ss' tf = tss :: rho has ne PO'se'i
Mr. Jesse Craddock, from whom we next
quote, was one of the first lawyers in Kentucky
He was a self-made man, who made his mark to
his marriage license. II speaks in strain Of
simple feeling and manly eloquence which both
convinces the judgment and goes straight &c
the heart:
al have been surprised TO find some gentle
men on this foor-aye, and elsewhere, who de
sire TO drive from the country, those upon whom
rest the hopes Of those favorable to a continu
ance Of our free institutions, TO make way TO
poor, miserable, degraded and wIetched slaves
Educate the haH1-handed, stout-hearted Yeoman
ny, give them place in our land; fit them for Ia,
proper discharge of the duties offreemen; but d.
not DIVE them from among US. Tie them TO u
| by kind treatment, and we shall need no stand
ing army, for when danger comes nigh your hab
ltation, no matter how far distant they may be
even though the waters of the ever soundin.
sea shall lie between you, they II fly TO your res
cue; then indeed they owe that true allegianc,
that can never be destroyed. Drive the yeomar
out; send han forth as an outcast; he has no in
ducement TO love his county; he mas reason
rather tocurse than bless the land Of his nativity
sis il not strange that we see old nlen-old il
years and oil n the service Of their country, en-
coursging course Of conduct that must crust
| the poor; that must forever break the chain be
tween the nch aud poor; that must inevitably de
stroy that mutual dependence the one upon the
other 50 essential TO the happiness and security
Of both course of conduct calculated To alienat,
forever the poor from the rich. To legislate wise
y we must leglslate for the whole people; not at
| tempt 10 raise one party over another. Fill uI
this land with slaves, and the poor man has NJ
place left but the grave; that, and that only hi.
asylum; you DIVE him from the land Of his faith
ers, compel him to leave the land where rest tn,
ashes OF his venerated parent, he must bid fare
well 10 all the scenes Of his youth--for WHAT Il
CRAFTY the ayaTice OF few, and 10 advance thei
depreciating interest.
We are told by the Senator from Fayette, W,
have not understanding enough to know wher
to trade to. He has been in person and survey
ed all the South his great railroad was to brin,
into our State millions. What | ask, in IN,
name OF God, must we buy in Charleston. The,
make cotton, we can't manufacture. We nigh
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poor, degraded, musky negroes, looking ever
worse than Kentucky farmers horses. That
| what the gentleman wants TO fill Nd the cou,tr
with. am Supposed 10 this; some may cali /
abolItionism. Tell 1t 10 the yecmanry; the,
won't regard names; no, SIR, they'll give it III,
right name.
But, SIR, WY should We not become a manu-
| featuring pepel They say il will bring In,
| Yankees among US. True, we must have whit,
labor TO canyon successfully our nianufactones
and perhaps yankees. They, it is feared. vii
eradicate tbs great blessing-negro slavery
Sir, let US ledslate like men; not as scheminl
partisans; LEI us so act as TO draw forth ths
slumbering eIergies Of the people; then, and MOI
TIL then, -shdl we be a great and prosperou:
people
| What, sir, IS the effect slavery has upon thu
interests Of aState, upon the morals Of a com
lnunity? Aaste, community, or an individual
without monls, had better not exist. These
were the opnions Of Nh. Jefferson. (NIr. c.
here went INT, an able argument upon slavery
its effects upsn a government considered in q
moral and plltIcal point of view, expressing
| himself of opinion that the time was coming
when the entte slave population shall be ship
ped 10 their naive land, TO use the eloquent Ian.
guage of Mr.. e., "carrying with them the gospel
in one hand aio civil liberty in the other,') He
remarked that's was probable he might be brand
ed as an acdirionlst. For said he, in these
times, no manis secure. The Farmer of Ash
land, the Brekenridges, the lamented Green.
all are denooped by the modern pro-slavery
men, as aboliionistsl
Mr. c. herestated that he had given his views
in his own rough way, and hoped If he had said
anything wroig, it would be attributed to the
head and not o the heart, for when he was mar
ned he put hismark upon his marriage license.
and had neve3gone to school day in his life,
and when his On in the lower House, was good
sized lad, he vas unable to read"
The following, on the same topic and marked
by even greatr elegance and pathos, are from
the lamented hines Hardin, Of Nelson:
Something had been said respecting the value
Of slave labor n the production of cotton, &c.
Mr.. Hardin,o Nelson, in his speech thus no.
ticed the subject.
"While on tiis branch of the subject, will
make one othei statement, rather in offset than
reply. The vnole export of cotton from this
country, AVERAGES, il is said from forty TO fifty
millions yearly and yet Mr.. Webster, upon the
hoorof the Serhte, when the distinguished Sen.
ator from Souti Carolina was INDUCING in like
strain of enlog' upon the South in contrast with
the North, showed from documentary evidence,
that the value u all the articles manufactured, m
the single Stab Of Massachusetts, for one wear.
was nearly eihty millions of dollars. sneak