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and will BE- attended with the anilnaIing encour.
sgemen1 that the coiOnisIs are transferred IRON
d land Of bondage and degradation for them TO
a land Of liberty and equality.
And 81. The expense Of transporting the lib.
Grated slave 10 The colony, aud Of maintaining
HIN there Tor SIX months, think. ought to be
provided for by fund to be derived from his
labor, 10 the manner already indicated. lie is
the party most benehued by emancipation. Il
would not be right 10 subject the non-slayehold.
er 10 any pau Of that expense; and the slave
holder will have made sufficient sacrifices, with
out being exclusively buuhened with taxes to
raise that fund. The emancipated stoves could
be hired out for the time proposed, by the Sher.
1T or other public agent, in each county, who
should be subject 10 strict accountability. And
II would be requisite that there should be kept a
register Of all births Of all children Of color az.
ter The day fixed for the commencement Of the
system, enforced by appropriate sanctions. Il
would be a very desirable regulation Of law to
have the births, deaths and marriages OF the
whole population Of the STATE, registered and
preserved as is done in most well governed
States.
Among other considerations which unite 10
recommending 10 The State Of Kentucky a sys.
tern for the gradual abolition Of Slavery. is that
arising out Of her exposed condition, affording
great facilities 10 The escape Of her slaves into
the free States and into Canada. She does not
enjoy the security which some of the Slave
States have, by being covered in depth by two
or three slave States, intervening between them
and the free States. She has greater length
on the free States than any other slave State in
the Union. That border is the Ohio river, ex.
tending from the mouth Of Big Sandy, TO the
mouth Of the Ohio, a distance Of near six hun.
dred miles, separating her from the already pow
eriul and growing States Of Ohio, Indiana, and
Illinois. Vast numbers Of slaves have fled
from most of the counties in Kentucky from the
mouth of the Big Sandy to the mouth of the
Miami, and the evil has increased and is still
increasing. Attempts to recover the fuglives
lead to the most painful and Irritating collisions.
Hitherto, counienance and assistance to the fu.
gtives have been chiefly afforded in lhe State Of
Ohio; but it is to be apprehended, from the pro.
gressIve opposition to slavery that, in process Of
time, similar facilities 10 the escape of slaves
in the States of Indiana and Illinois. By means
Of rail roads Canada can be reached from Gin.
cinnali in little more than twenty four hours.
In the event of a civil war breaking out, or in
the more direiul event Of dissolution of the
Union, in consequence Of the existence Of sa.
very, Kentucky would become the theatre and
bear the brunt Of the war. She would doubt.
less defend herself with her known vaor and
gallanry; but the superiority Of the number,
by which she would be opposed woulday waste
aud devaslate her fair fields. Her sister slave
States would fly TO her succor, but even if they
should be successful in the unequal conflict
she could never obtain any indemnity for the
inevitable ravages Of the war.
Ii may be urged that we ought not by the
gradual abolition Of slavery, 10 separate our
selves from the other slave States, but continue
to share with them in all their future fortunes.
The power of each Slave State, within its limits
over the institution of slavery, is absol ute, su-
preme and exclusive-exclusve Of that of Con-
gress or that of any other State. The Govern.
ment of each slave State is bound by the high.
est and most solemn obligations to dispose Of
the question of slavery so as best to promote
the peace, happiness and prosperity of the peo.
pie Of the State. Kentucky being essentially y a
farming State slave labor is less profitable. II
in most Of the other slave States, they find that
labor more profitable, in the culture of the sta
Pile of cotton and sugar, they may perceive .
reason in that feeling for continuing slavery
which cannot be expected should control the
judgement Of Kentucky, as 10 what may be fit
ting and proper for her interests.-lf she should
abolish slavery, il would be her duty and trus
that she wouid be as ready, as she now is to de-
fend the slave States in the enjoyment of the
lawful and constitutional rights.-Iler powe
political and physical would be greatly increas
ed; for the one hundred and ninety odd thous
and slaves and their descendents, would be gra
dually superseded by an equal number Of white
inhabitants, who would be estimated per capita
and not by the federal rule of three.ifths pre-
scribed for the coored race in the Constitution
of the United States.
| have thus, without reserve, freely expresses
my opinion and presented my visws. The in
terestng subject of which have treated wou,
have admitted of much enlargement, but hav
desired to consult brevity. The plan which
have proposed will hardly be accused of beh
too early in its commencement, or too rapid il
its operation. 1t will bo more likely 10 NEE
with contrary reproaches. If adopted, it is Il
begin thirIy-four or thirty nine years from tn
time of its adoption, as the one period or tn
other shall be selected for its commencement
How long time it will take to remove all tn
cololed race from the State, by the annual tran
sportaton Of each years natural increase can
not be exactly ascertained. After the system
has been in operation some years, think pro
bable, from the manifest blessings that wou
flow from it, from the diminished value of slav
labor, from the humanity and benevoence @
private individuals prompting liberation G
their slaves aud their transportation, genera
disposition would exist to accelerate and com
pete the work of colonization.
That the system will be attended with som
sacrifices on the part Of shareholders, which ar
to be regretted need not be denied. What gre,
and beneficial enterprise was ever accompllshe
without risk and sacrificed But these sacrifice
are distant, contingent and inconsderable. Al
suming the year 1860 for the commencement
the system, all slaves born prior to that tim
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