The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-04-15
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We would have al 90 far,hc-, ard rsrel.otier;
Ne have 40 faith in the eternal appeal 10 men :
Interests. - # they had not soul enough to look
beyond the dollar; no faith whatever, IN the doc
time which teaches, that the cash calculation,
the enquiry simply, how much shall we make OF
lose, Is the one great need.
Have we not made IL I, not the South,
nov, governed byity' u is 50, IN pan. There
be men who say, ''negTOes cost uS 10 much,
bnng us 50 much, make US thus and thus
wealth., and, therefore, We VIII not pant with
them-wilI denounce those who seek 10 enamel
pate them" But with the educated, with the
influential, with all men Of pride-otheT, and,
we should say, in this comparison, batter, feel
lngs prevail. They say, ''this possession gives
US ease, rank, adds 10 our social and politi-
cal influence makes US nllers over others, besides
slaves, and, therefore, viii defend the insttu-
ton, cling 10 it, let what may happen
No matter, however what prevails, no matter
how humane SHAREHOLDERS sTe, there Is no posi-
1ility OF their htririHg, a. a class, while they
continue such What Is il 10 thnvel '''rO put
money in our pockets eagerly answers hun
dreds Wei, LEI this be the test. Where viii
YOU go to make III WedO not care where-Ala-
bsms, Mississippi, South Carolina. Begin.
Count up the number OF planters, IN any neigh
borhood, thirty, twenty, ten years ago, and ask,
what Is their condition nor, what the condition
Of the country around iheml We venture to
say, that not ten Of the heads Of families out Of
Kar "A "A
that not ten out OF every fifty OF their sons have
turned out useful and VirtuOus citizens; that not
ten out Of any fifty neighbOThOOds have schools
to educate all, growing population, handy,
industrious people,
But what is II TO fhnvel Answer, parent,
that question myself Here are three boys born
TO you. You love- them. You would die FOR
them any hour Well, vision comes 10 you, in
which you see them, not pampered, not waited
On, moi iilsTs, bat busy, active, hearty doers
among men--pOor il may be, bat honond-
punched sometime, yet standing zap like brave
fellows, and cutting through hard difficulties, tn
umphantly. The scene changes. Another vis-
ION nses, IN which you give them each an hun
dIed slaves, and they go forth, not TO work, but
10 look on, not 10 make an impress on society,
but 10 float down upon whatever cunenthappens
% be strongest, not TO ennch the earth, but to
live and die as if mere enjoyment, pastlme, were
their all in all. And were you told, elk now
the LOT Of these loved boys, either Of these lives
they may lead;'' let Us ask, which would you
choose Which condition decreel You could
not hesitate second YouwoUldsay, ''let them
bemen.' What is it, then, to thrive? 1t is TO
be in that position in which the best faculties Of
mind and heart are best employed, in which
whatever Of good in us, is developed, made TO
grow, and thus permanently tobeneft ourselves;
snd bless ali around US
And what IS true Of the individual, is true of
nation, a whole people. Here is France
with her name linked now with freedom. Who
thought, under her old monarch, Of cheering her.
calling her greail Who could be rapt with en-
1hnsiasm about her, or her kngl She has driven |
him away The men of horny hands, made so i
by hard toll, they who society calls coarse
and Vulgar, and sneers at-they did this glorious
deed. And bark, how the worlds heart leaps. |
See how fnom nation TO nation, as the lightning |
from orag tocrag, darts the influence of this deed
moving the masses, and making them rise up to |
do France honorl They ask not, whether France
is making OF losing money, but they say, France
is assisting the liberty Of man-means to assist
ito have all enjoy il, realize il, as night God
given, and inalienable, and they fling up then