Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1849-03-29

cure to Kentucky any prospect of deliyerance
rom the weight of an evil in all respects
! greater, more formidable, aud far less easily
| capable of correction than is commonly sup
/ posed. The present condition Of kentucky
and the comparison of her statistics of popul,-
ton for half century, will supply refuta-
tion of some very popular illusions on the
subject ef slavery and in particular, the ial-
lacy that slavery only fuurishcs in planting
| territory, and must decay, so as gradually, II
! left to it,ef, to die out in farming State -
1t was my opinion in l709," says Mr.. Clay,
" that Kentucky was in state TO admit oi
the gradual emancipation of her slaves ana
how deeply do lament that a system, With
that object, had not then been established
/ Ifit had been. the State would now be rid OF
all slaves" What a glorious conception
and yet what a painful one There are now
nearly two hundred thousand slaves in Ken
lucky.
Il According to the official census returns,
kentucky contained, in 1900, total popula-
ton of 300 ,925 souls of whom lSo,Gl5 were
free, and 10 ,3ii were slaves. In 1910, total
population had swelled to 10, ,s2S Of which
the free were 597, $40, and the slaves ls2, ,25S.
The arthmet.cal analysis of fthese data shows
! that the rate of increase during these forty
years was for the whole population, 1853 per
cent; for the free population alone, 800 per
cent for the slave population, i59 per cent.
nearly. That is to say-incredlble as It may
seem to many 2crsons-in Kentucky, where
they talking, and have been so long talk
inc. abou. emancipation-in Kentucky,
farming State, not planting State, where
the value of slave labor is assuredly much less
han il is in cotton or sugar region-slavcry
is, and for forty years has been, rapidly in
rrcasinC, and slaves multiply fasterr-much
fastcr-than r.cemcn. In this period, while
the latter have increased three and third fold,
( the former have increased four and half fold.
According to a recent report of the second
Auditor to the Legislature of the State, The
number of slaves now in Kentucky Is 02,f1O;
! which is IN increase above the number exist
ing in 1900 Of io2 per cent, or nearly tcc
foH. At this rate, what is to be the result
tho institution be left to itself for another
| flly wears and, especially, with the addition
al aid and encouragement Of such a law as
the Legislature has Just passed, authorizing
the introduction of slaves from other States I!
In our opinion, there is, at the present mo-
/ mcut, wild and dread iniatuation, amounting
| almost to insanity, on the subject OF slavery IN
| all the slave States IN the Union,-a reaction
| ary feeling, compounded of pride, wrath and
| Glly.-the anti-abolitlon feeling, the offspring,
| to n certain extent, of abolition itseli,-whlch
/ rcsis,s the so called nsiUral progress of cman-
| cipation, where the real interests of States in
yite it, as in al the old and farming slave
I Statcs-Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee,
in the West. and Maryland, Virginia and
North Carolina in the East-and endcavors to
unite them in the project of cursing intended
future States of the Union, and unborn mil
! lions of citizens with an eyil-an acknowledge
/ ed heavy cyil-lrom which they and their
| pecple now suffer, and know they suffer
|
er expanding flood of numerical increase IN
/. slavery itself, making the task OF emancipa-
|, ton greater to-day than it was yesterday, and
insuf,ns that it will be greater to morrow
than il Is to-day, are obstacles serious, practi-
cal, moun,ain-likc, in the way of emancipa.
,ion,--obstacles that deter the efforts and breal,
the hearts Of common mel, ,-obsracles tha,
can only be faced by courageous men, and on
ly removed BY those who have the magic quail
i,y OF leading and terminating the multitude
and inspiring it with their own gigantic roso-
luton.
1t is these circumstances that confer mpor-
tancc and heroic, truly heroic, character
upon Henry Clay's movement in favor OF
emancipation in kentucky. Other men ial.
ter, but not he. Other men shrink back il
fear beiole the reacignary spirit which as
sails-and kills off emancipation reformer.
S with the mad dog cry Of " incendiary''-
: i fanatc"--" public encmy'-but Henry
+ Clay presents himself full in the way of tho
destroying spirit, and dsregarding it, calls
upon the people of Kentucky to shake oll'thC
, evil which oppresses them, and is deatl
! blight upon their prosperity. At the sound
C and Slch sound-of his voice, We may ex
5 pect a revival of the emancipation cause il
that State The sun Of new hope rise;
there the flame Of a new courage will b
kindled in ten thous md breasts that were
, chilled, aud that grand result of ih3 enactment
of an actual emancipation law, may be achiev.
ed by the effort of Henry Clay, which was fac
2 eludng the hand, and vanishing away from
2 the hopes Of his less powerful fcllow citizens
II CLIMATE or aLiEoRSIA.-We lave recelv
ed (s y; the n. Y Hsrald,) meteorological
tail : Of the weather and thermometer at Mon
terey, Upper California, kept by Talbot II
: Greene, Esq, merchant at Monterey, during
The space Of a year, viz from March, 1915
to Feb 'uary, 1916. From these tables pref
ty 90 ID idea may be io m d ofthe climate o
r. . al,