The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-09-29

hcatlon tor seat in the Legislature is vii
tually an exclusion OF Shareholders
No man can be elected TO the lower House
unless he possesses real estate worth 500
clear of debt, or 500 acres of land, an,
TEN SEGRoEs! To be a Senator require
double the amount Of real estate. The LIE
glsiature being thus secured TO the slavehol
defs. that body appoints the whole judicia
~, including Justices Of the Peace, anC
also the Presidential Electors: and to per
Petuate this monopoly Of slaveholding pow
er, no alteration can be made in the Con
stltution but with the consent Of two-third:
OF two successive Legislatures. The Wi
ter proposes a voluntary Convention tc
iofm new Constitution to be submitted to
the Legislature. Not a word is said against
Slavery as unjust or immoral, but its PERM
cIous influence upon the poor whites is
pointed out, and lis extension to the new
Territories, to which the poor whites are
iocking, is deprecated.
For putting this tract into the Post Office,
under blank covers. addressed TO white cit.
Gems, MIR. Barrett is treated as a felon, and
denounced as San incendiary Aboltionist, y
and, as We learn from a South Carolina
Journal, is liable TO twelve months i'm.
prIsonment and one thousand dollars fine. y
Nay, We are assured, "there is more than
a possibility that Barrett. may be indicted
for an offence, the penalty of which is
DEArH, without benefit OF clergy, and as
Suredly, if convicted, all the Abolition.
ISIS in the United States cannot save him. "
We see in these efforts of the slavehold.
els 10 keep their INDECENT iellow.citizens in
ignorance Of the wrongs they suffer, and OF
the rights to which they are entitled, and to
punish whoever would enlighten them, q
despotism as Jealous and as heartless as any
known in the Old World.
Our 100000 shareholders are now threat
ening 2O,000,O00 Of people with rebellion
and civil war, il forbidden to establish, over
vast regions Of the American continent now
free, the system Of white suffrage, with q
landed aristocracy, with which South Caro-
lima is cursed. To their insolsnt and mi.
quitous demand, the Wilmot Proviso inter.
poses a stern denial But multitudes Of
Southern citizens, recreant to their own re,
publican professions, are devising how they
may cooperate with the champions OF hu-
man bondage, in preventing the enactment
Of the Proviso. Many of the Wing lead.
efs, fearful Of offending their Southern al.
lies are heaping contempt upon the Proyiso,
calling il "Gn abstraction" and denounc-
ing those who insist upon it, as faction
The Hunker Democracy, in the face OF
the world, unblushingly avow that they can.
not consent to divide the party, and thus
sacrifice their expectations OF power and
emolument, merely to secure the future lib.
erty and happiness of New Mexico ard
California. Never since the birthday of
the Republic has any great political asso-
citation been actuated by more generous and
disinterested motives, or proposed 6 more
noble end than the FREE Sol PAErr.-
For this party, are reserved the plaudits,
and for the Northern mercenanes Of the
Southern aristocracy, the Reproduction, OF
unborn generations. A. b.
august, 1S49.