The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-03-17
From the Louisville DemOcri
M. r,,ancipatioa Movement.

rn.sion you said: ave do not admit
-. oscss,ity of this movement for emanci.
w. and we do not believe any plan
r., can be devised at present practicable
- possible in this Commonwealth. We
Iii defend both these positions when We
Sc occasion for it.
Bv the latter proposition. | suppose you
,osan that no plan is capable OF being car
IL into effect in our present circumstances,
Nv reason of the inherent difficulties OF the
s.,b;sct and the insurmountable obstacles
which the public will throws up. As 10
the FIST of these points, | think plan has
been exhibited which is capable OF being
armed out. Neither 10 the nature OF
,b;ngs. nor in the particular case, does there
sem 70 me TO be any difficulty, which il
msv not overcome. You may think me
y.Ty dull, or very unreasonably PrePossessed
n favor of this plan. and hence unable TO
n4rcsiye the force of the objections, which
YOU have urged against it. On the other
bsnd am sure that your kindness would
Co,gye me, If you supposed that thought,
or even if we're to intimate, that your
own pr.possessions against the whole move
mspt and your pledge at the beginning to
oDposs every plan. that might be proposed.
Si.ouslfy YOU, at present, for an impartial
consideration of this plan. But ! wall not
abuse your courtesy in allowing me the use
Of your columns, by extending needlessly
me explanation or defence Of my views oil
his part Of the subject. am very willing
70 leave this plan where have placed it.
! think for myself-so do you-and 50,
Gentlemen, will the people who read what
We are writing. II those, whose business
il is 10 settle all this matter, shall reject
,hs plan, will cheerfully submit-in the
true republican spirit-for you remember
that am an old fashioned democrat
and in the hope that better will be brought
forward and adopted.
As TO the difficulties which this or any
o,bsr plan will meet in the public mind
sITs,ov settled, as you suppose, against the
whole E. MISREPRESENTATION every conceive
he Man will be found impracticable, be-
ooua rHF p yoPLE, whose province il is to
accept or rejec.'. will have nOne-th4t is a
snb;sct on which neither you nor | can say
ANYTHING with cert ,inty at this time. The
FIRST Monday in Aug, 'st, and no earlier day
will make it plain, I can calmly wait ioI
that day. When it com. "-li 1--we 10 set
it, and its decisions shoul,N De against my
wishes-es a sound democrat In that same
republican spirit will read. ny acqulesct
in the conclusions Of the people, In The
meantime, it is my right, which you freely
acknowledge, to use ell proper mt ans lC
bring others to my way of thinking. Ant
have strong faith in the power of trtut
and reason.
Your first proposition is, that this move
ment for emancipation is not necessary
you do not admit its necessity ! under
stand you TO employ these terms in aquall-
fed sense; for in an absolute and unquall.
fed meaning, no one would Use them IN
this connection. No man would say thai
kentucky cannot possibly get along with
out emancipation. You mean to say. that
IN your opinion, the public good does no
require it; that the highest prosperity and
uuest glory Of this Commonwealth do no
depend in any degree upon it, that human
ity does not claim it at our hands; nor thu
love Of liberty nor religion itself plead fo
1t. You know, gentlemen, that | would
not purposely misstate your views, or seek
any advantage in the argument by the
slightest discoloring Of them. have read
with the utmost care all that you have
written, and this | take TO be fair and
ample statement Of the substance and spirit
Of it, on the point now before US.
With great respect, but with the utmost
confidence that am right. and that you
are wrong, | differ from you here. In the
sense explained above. | hold that the
early adoption of some plan for abolishing
slavery, and removing the colored popula-
uon, is among the first necessities Of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky. We can
live without it. We can be prosperous
without it. But it would be retarded-and
not, as il ought to be; and as il would
Dc with ia constantly accelerated pros
P'nty. We can be great Commonwealth
without it. Virginia is great Common
"esith-the nursery Of statesmen-the
mother Of States-the glorious Old Do.
mImon Is great Commonwealth-slavery
ard all. But ! think she had this day
been TAR geater-snd more prosperous
ncher in all the elements Of true greatness
and prosperity--if she had, with unflinch.
ing hmness and consistency adhered to her
policy Of IT'S, and carried out the princi-
pies Of universal liberty which it favored,
II did not rest upon them. In that year
so near to '76-while the struggle of our
National independence was going on
while such men as Washington, and JEFF.
ierson, and Henry, her sons, her statesmen,
were at the head OF affairs, and the influ.
ence oil their opinions was felt in her legis-
lstlon--her Assembly passed an sct to pre-.
.enl the iufther importation OF slaves,
imposing enormous penalties for its viola.
uon' and setting free the slaves brought in
and sod. ! say, if virginia had carried
Out the policy which this act suggests, she
mad this day been far greater Common.
wealth than she is. So / say OF Kentucky.
our oest interests-the things that make
people truly great and happy-.would be
promoted in very high degree by the
tiaoIsi disappearance Of slavery, and the
Olack man. They will ell be retarded,
sno mat with constantly increasing and
more and more successful resistance. h
slavery be declared perpetual.