The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-10-20

,rateful. and we, the writer Of this article, VINO
,sd the high honor to be born within ,ne ii'n'''
# that wonderful commonwealth tnro" W
,ur cap and shout "Hszrah for fishef' WI"
he lustiest Of his admirers.
Now we think particularly well OF our ma
live State, and of her sons and daughters ou'
we cannot swallow Mr.. Fisher's fuisome anu
nsussous eulogy, neither can we sgfee WIN
HIM in his fu ndamental position, namely tha'
negro slavery has added 10 the wealth OF VIZ
GINA, and made Virginia men nooler ano n'''e
and Virginia women swee'er ana
more beautiful
In the Warreuton speech the orator saio '"o
things which attracted our attention. na'ne'y'
that Virginia csdsd the Northwestern 'effi'0'y
to the Union TO equalize the ProPoft'on' "
slave and free territory, and that slavery IN
to California. In both 'hese a''''
tons, Fisher IL, us usual. perfectly original; 'na
n 10 say. no one ever said either Of them before
We have Just read the Virginia act Of cession'
and if It contains any sentence, word, syllable
or letter that iustifes Fishers sssumphon' we
have failed TO discover It, Indeed, every BODY
knows that no such object as Fisher assigns
.vsr entered into the heads OF those men who
made the cessi0n.
The reason assigned why California cannot
be cultivated without slavery, is that imigratioh
is indispensable, and slavery indispensable 10
migration! II Fisher had ever heard Of Colo
mel Suffers famous wheat field Of thirty thou
sand acres in California, he would have known
better than to make such an absurd assertion.
But he is one Of those amazing geniuses who
disdain 10 notice facts, and who build up theo-
res to suit themselves. and net TO suit the cir
Gu mstances to which the theory is TO apply.
The Fredericksburg speech is a most extraor-
binary tumble, meant to prove that cities are
the bane of mankind, and that as the slave States
have no large cities, the people In that region
are far happier and better ane Purer than the
people Of the free States where enterprise has
built up large cities, the sinks Of iniquity.
The orator says that II Boston or New York
q" were taken by domestic insurrection, there
would not be power enough available in the
State to which It belongs to recover IT," We
hope the people Of these absurdly large cities,
then, will not permit themselves to be taken BY
"a domestic instruction.
! The orator further informs the virginians tina,
they are not Anglo-Saxons, but 0, - "'man oe-
see mt, and that the Normans Were the most mag
niicent people that ever kicked up u dust on
this round earth. Henceforth ell Of MS Virgin.
Ians will turn up our noses at Anglo-Saxonism
and go in for Normanism in Its most undiuted
proportions. As these Normans, or men from
the North, have grown to be the best and great
est men the world ever saw by transportation
to the South, may not the miserable, nasal, slab
sided Yankees who have sense enough TO leave
their unhappy homes and go to the South and
breed their children where negroes are bred, in
process Of time come to be the most monstrous-
| " great men the man in the moon ever sneezsd
at, Mr.. Fisher7
But the most remarkable thing in the speech
is that where the orator, to glorify Virginians,
asserts that the Virginia women breed precisely
thrty-three and a-third per cent. faster than the
women Of Massachusetts, !!!!,! The orator
relates that rare anecdote that when Madame de
Stael asked Napoleon who was the greatest wo-
man, he replied she who has the most children n,
and then adds, very naively, "the greatness o.
| Virginia toOMeH THEREFORE, can scarcely be ar
eeiled." Our grandmother bore eleven sons
and daughters, and was "therefore' great wo-
man, but she had a negro servant who bore sew
enteen, the number Of Priam's sons, and she
was therefore" greater woman. Poor Miss
Maria Edgeworth, Miss Hannah More, Miss
Joanna Baillie, Miss Jane and Miss Anne Maria
Porter, Miss Mary Milford, &c, &c., &C., how
you missed it, and what inferior women you
were, for neither Of you ever felt the pangs or
the bliss Of a mother.
riously-the virginians who applauded
such stuff as Fisher tried to entertain them
with, must have degeneratei sadly from the
height Of their noble Norman ancestry. In view
Of his Cincinnati Lecture, and Of his Virginia
speeches, we ask il we nave not properly de.ie-
mated Ellwood Fisher when we call him a
SPLENDID sINPLETos1
He has made himself famous by impudence.
The assertion that the slave States are more
wealthy and prosperous than the free States, is
a proof that the impudencs of the man cannot
be surpassed. No other man ever dared to make
such an assertion before Fisher, and yet now
the prePosterous assumption in favor Of negro
slavery is echoed by every pair Of pro-slavery
lungs from the Ohio and Potomac to the Rio
Grande! Talk about the contagiousness Of the
measles and the smallpox, indeed! What is
thar contagiousness. compared to that Of sub
lime imPudencei