The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-04-21

me- we KNOW OF no cause adequate IA
ney, esunt Tor this state Of things except the
pu' ~ence OF negro slavery. A majority Of
ncn- people OF Kentucky are as DESTROYS liar
10Y ucason shall be universal, and are q
over llng 70 be taxed for that purpose as lie
PIE % any State in the Union. None
sol o'yond them IN liberality and disiYteresl
OH ness and yet after the system has been
nos' 'doiisned Tor thirteen years, and liberal
'ieh preparations annually made for Its suppt
ICY ~ must stll be considered In is infancy.
'es' IL our Eo-slavery friends can listen
u lne idle clatter Of few more statistic
oh 'nis suoleo. We will present them wi
'au some iacts connected with our CITY. = Z,
n lew years since, the standardbf nnbl
o. education was much higher in this CITY h,
IN al present. In 1912 and for SINE YEA
OF preceding, II was the custom o select :
ae poor lads from the common schools a.
u. place them in the city college for a wear !,
u reward OF merit Two thousand asia
" was al one time anruallyappropriaisd Is 4
eIiy college. On the Sth Of Jane 1870
D. ieaoer appeared in the Louisville Jon,as
Dr. 'auntlng The Cincinnatians With the M,
d rowness OF their system in fixitg the stand
o ara oil education at SO low | point an,
holding up TO view our IbenIitv tn,
Q people OF Cincinnati have improved h,;,
Q system, and elevated their standard and ",
I have lowered ours. ' w
f We pay teachers less than was maid IN
former years. The buildings ,ppropriareJ
, and erected for common school nnrnosos
are inferior to what they were some wears
since. Not one parent in hundred attends
or takes any notice ofour annual school eY
am'natlons. On the opposite side of The
lvef IN a small town OF some 2 or 5000 in.
habitants, they have erected two large school
houses which in point Of architectural dis
play and internal arrangement, far exceed
any tnlng oil which We can boast. All this
100 IN the commercial emporium Of the
ota'e oil kentucky where the system, has
oeen Longest tried and where il has ALWAYS
been popular. ''' ''"o''
The true nature Of common school svs
tenn as adapted TO the wants Of coo,muni.
" OF ireemen is well described in the Ian.
guage oil the Virginia Education Conyen.
ilon, held in 1S4l. They say:
The public schools must Be good. Tb.v
nus % emphaticaly colleges for the people. III
they are not good enough for the rici ,bsv will
no, be nj for Re poor. IN made as gaoS y. WI ,Ln
rich desire, wealthy citizens will have no IN
easement to send their children from horne for
We suppose that there is no, WORKING
man In the State but will subscribe 10 the
correctness Of this doctrine-but where the
great body OF the laborers are slaves Il Is
impossible that it can ever become more
than Utopian theory. The institution oil
slavery, and good practical svs,en orl
public education neper hare and neper can
co-exlst together. except where the slaves
are largely ontnumbefed by freemen. Sla. |
very and education are by their very nature
at war with each other. - be-
But 10 all "this idle clatter of facts and
statistics on the all important subject of
education, our pro-slavery friends have a |
very conclusive answer: "7Rs stump and
the newspaper are TO be oar edxcaors'
This Is adding insult 10 injury. What
are we, the working men OF the State to be
told that inasmuch as slavery and common
schools cannot in the nature of things pros
perously co-exist together-we are TO cling
TO and sustain slavery and give sp the
schools! Must the interests OF both BODY
and soul be sacrificed to the Unsuitable Mo.
loch. Are virtue and intelligence the "Pil. |
lars OF Republicanism," or is 'sslavery the
only safe and stable basis for Republican
institutions" Surely it is time that the
freemen Of Kentucky were beginning to
understand themselves on this subject.
We are citizens, and voters, and as such
we are called upon to think and act on the
mostintricate questions Of political economy.
public rights, and social order. We can.
not do this intelligenly without an educa-
ton very different from that furnished by
itnerant stump speakers and violent party
newspapers. We would say nothing de-
rogatory Of the stump or the newspaper
They are both useful in their respective
places, but we hold that an educated com.
munity is necessary to restrain the violence
and demagoguery OF the one and the licen-
tiousness of the other. as-s s-
Give our children an education betting
their responsibilities, and you add ten-fold
to the usefulness OF both the stump and the
newspaper. esrra .l.I41 - q.
The deleterious effects Of slavery upon the
industry Of country is seen in the small
number OF mechanical and manufacturing
establishments, which are to be found in the
slave States. Farmers. OF limited means
are unable as their sons grow up to give
them trade, owing to the limited demand
for mechanical labor consequent upon
state Of slavery. The difficulty is two-fold.
Mechanical labor is considered degrading,
and as a natural consequence, there is com
paratively small amount of capital in
vested in that department of industry.
Opening Lexington newspaper the 9th.
er day, we saw an advertisement which ex-
plains this matter. The advertiser inform
ed the citizens that his large coach and car
riage warerooms were in Lexington, but his
mandatory and ioork shops,oere in Mad
lie the statistics OF the amount OF manu-
featured articles imported into Kentucky
from Ohio and Indiana could be ascertain
ed. and spread before this community, they
would soon be led to ascertain the cause
and apply the remedy.
We intended to furnish a number Of sta.
tistical tables, showing the wages Of labor
in the free and slave States, but we shall
leave this Eor a 6,t,,ra occa.;op and will