The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-02-24

Hay, tons l,s7s,OOO ls4OO5
Flax & Hemp" 1903 I5IS
1t IS needless 10 go into an estimate of he a.
gregate values The table shows, Al once. TIA.
Ohio possesses double the agricultural wealth Of
Kentucky. Her Indian Com and whea, sl5us
are worth the whole Of the products Of Ken.
lucky, as set down in the foregoing table. Te
aggregate value Of all those prodacts, on-ys1
coed by one-fourth, the value Of the sinDleI,sn
Of Hay in Ohio.
When TO all this We add that Ken,leky !.
al least equal 70 Ohio In al natural resourcss; "a
settled at an earlier peTiod, and hada pO2u.a,ics
of q, 600, when Ohio was a wilderness. uA..s
now, after a race Of forty yeas, Ohio has tulee
the population, three times the Manufacurny
and Commercial wealth, and more than dsu5.r
the Agricultural, then we are PREPARED % f5rr
some estimate of the comparative value Of 1e
free-labOr and slaye-lsbOI systems
Kentucky contains about twenty-five uli..0,,
Of acres Of land, and, according 70 The Audi,ors
Report, the value of all the slaves IL the STATE i,
a little over $50, 900, 600. II, BY emancipation.
the average increase IN the Prce Of lant sto1I
be two dollars an acre, that increase would pay
for all the slaves in the State. We have no cO1.t
that, if our Commonwealth were rd OF sIaysl.
the enhanced value Of the sol would Be nors
than equal 10 the assessed value Of al thes.sTes
We might add to the statistics we have aJw
given, and thus pile proof on proof Of the iaC.
thatslaveTy IS hostile to al the industrial Interests
Of State. But wehave atduced enough % sa.-
isfy any man Of candid mind, that slaysry has
greatly retarded the growth Of our CommoI-
wealth, and prevented the development Of ne
resources with which she Is so nch,y enicxe5
Remove this incubus from her far bison, an
she will speedily become quickened with new
life, and enter with spint on career OF tie q
est prosperity and reaown. As free State, sc
would resound from hes centre to her s1tTsnlnes
with the busy sounds Of snterpnse-her popoLa-
ton would soon be doubled and ireblet-heI II
mense mineral treasures woSId be ODenet I'd 20
the hight OF day-wOTks Of internal improve
ment, facilitating transportation between tlEsr-
ent and distant points wCald spnng into exist
eace-habIts Of activity would banish the Az
guor that IS now felt IN every vein-chserfLn.ss
would displaee despOndency-schoOl-holsesa an
churches would be greatly mulupliel-ani ne
hum Of industry would Ilse 70 heaven fI0m syeN
hill side and smiling valley Ike an snihem Of
praise from happy and thnving people. Whea
we reflect on what Kentucky mightbs, We can
not too deeply lament that lnfatuation Which has
30 long pepetuatel a system 50 detrimental %
all her interests. Slavery has not yet exhausted
her fertility, and brought desolatiOn On hsr sss,
but such will be her melancholy experience, IN
less she casts OF her shsekles before i : TOO
late.
We shall not urge at present those ys'y ".
Portant considerations which faithful evan
alton Of the moral and social influence. u 81
very cannot fan 70 awaken. II ~ ul,se! .
make the picture Of slavery days. sp,alng,
and revolving in the extreme, We night EASY
do 50 BY depicting its effects n the nora an -
eial relations Of the COMM nity as they az. nan
Tested wherever II Is per nittel 70 exist
The advocates Of s',avery. unable % ansEsl
NE statistical facts which are 80 abundant an
prove 50 clearly that slavery re,arts the srou,h
oil population, zre prone TO ask Whether KsH-
lucky IS not popUlOus enough and WhelhsI
dense population Is not to be deprecated fa-hsl
than desired To fortify their position, they r.
Ter 10 the vices which prevsilin laTge cites. ar
the dit .eulties experienced BY the masses N GET
ting s-oag IN the most denseiy populated coan-
the, on the globe. II Is sufficient, perhaps, =
reply to such logic, TO say that in no state Of as
Union, Is there the least probability that, ~I-Aa
the next century, the population viii Press onas
means Of subsistence, for We have an ara e
public lands, embracing over fourteen hlBt'e1
millions OF acreS-mOre than an acre an3
half for every human beng on The face Of ne
earth With such boundleSs pubic DOMAIN, 6
Is not a. all likely that any Of the United Sts'ss
Will, for generations to come, be afHietsi ~
The evils Of over-populatiOn- Those gentsEsl,
who affect 70 think that 4 KsntlcSf
should emancIpate her slaves, she Nj soon .
TOO densely populated, may As vel Sliei mel
There can be no doUa tar
when slavery shall be abolished IN Or Con-
there viii follow vsH lage n
crease in our population, and that s PTee-se'
what Kentucky needs TO develop her rssou'sss,
and to insure to her an eminent and eOnnHnsa
prosperity.
Every good citizen is ANXIOUS that ne nlnsiA
treasures Of the State shall be opened an 'sl-
Tered available to enteTpnse-that tie iaca-ils'
If inteT-communieatiOn shall Be greatly n-I'
,lied-that education shall visit its b-essInss -
he mind Of every child in the STATE, an -.
;huTches shall be increased ten-iOle, besPesA"S
he universally Of the religious senhmenL a.
'nnging the altar within convenient tsisAes :
IL wepresume that but few vii AA-a'1 -
lial of the value Of these agents and insiIa-
alities Of the public good. and here He
many who would not regard the dss'no'.s
4 the mineral inches Of the State, the n1--P
alton Of works Of internal ImPE0'sns1'
eneral diffusion Of the blessing o. eaacA
nd great increase in the NUMBER q e11-