The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-07-07

A BAPTIST PREAcHER.
From the Covington (Ky.) Journal.
FORREST HONE, Boone County, Ky.
June ID, 1919.
take il as true, that all men are governed in
some sort by what they conceive TO be their in
terest. The great object then in the government
of man, collectively and individually, is TO
make the interest Of each individual harmonise
with and subserve the interest OF the whole
and the highest patriotism, as well as the high
est wisdom, goodness and benevolence, Is to feel
with a full and undoubted conviction, that
whilst laboring for the true essential interest,
happiness and welfare of society, we are labor
ing for our own true essential interest, happi-
ness and welfare. Hence, the principles and
the measures of our government should all
tend to make man faithful TO himself. only as
he is faithful TO his fellow, and satisfy him that
the highest and only good Of his nature, harmo-
nises with and is conducive 10, the highes; and
best good, of the whole human race. In short,
by the strongest motives Of interest, 10 induce
us to carry out the divine and bene6cent prin-
eiples upon which the happiness and well-being
Of society is based, viz; TO love our neighbor as
ourself, and 10 do unto all men as We would
that they should do unto US.
1t is admitted that in derogation Of these
principles a nation may become powerful and a
man may attain wealth, consequence and dis
unction; or seeking that glory and renown
which is found in the breath of popular APP
plause under the influence Of misdirected edu-
cation or false conceptions Of religion and glo.
nv, he may WELD the sceptre Of state, wear the
princely crown. or clothed in royal hsbiliments,
he may luxuriats In purple and fine linen. A
thousand slaves may minister to his imaginary
wants; a thousand courtiers may tax their ge-
MUS and blacken their conscisaces, 10 cater to
his engnlphing passion for applause; still, when
ever comes one moment of reflection, one calm
retrospect at life, he will be ready, Gin the full
ness of his Disappointment 10 exclaim in the
language Of the wise man Of old, "vanity Of
yanities; all is vanity and vexation Of spirit"
Applying this doctrine to the subject before
Us, l asks the continuance Of a mixed popu-
iatfUu consisting OF distinct races, SO very diff
'ferent as the white and black, so conducive and
essential TO the happiness of either or both
races, as to require us to depart from the prin-
eiples Of republican liberty, restrain the free
dom Of the people upon the subject, to them Of
the most vital importance, deny TO them the
power to alter, amend and modify their consti-
tuition at pleasure, in order to hold fast to an
institution which nine-tenths of our fellow
citizens consider an unqualified eyill So far
from Il ias have shown in a former number)
the peaceable continuance Of such a state Of
society is impossible without the one being held
in subservience to the other. have also shown
that perpetual slavery is impossible, and that
without the abomination OF amalQsmation, or
the true remedy, deportation from the country,
the blacks within the slave States must,
within the lifetime Of our born children,
so far preponderate as to endanger the exis-
tence of the white race, or be themselves
extermlnated. The question then recurs;
what shall we do with our black popula-
toni This question deserves our most serious
IL is duty we owe to ourselves
and our children, as well as 10 the master and
slave, to consider 1t well. The aboIitonist tells
yeu-iiberate the slave and trust the conse-
quence TO God. This would be but TO aban-
bandon che country for the sake Of leaving
such intolerable bad neighbors behind us as
would hasten the determination OF the race
The perpetual slavery-slaveholder on the other
hand. tells you, you have no right to ask the
question! Descending all common sense and
himself In his wealth and the techni-
calities Of the law, he says these people are my
property; have legal right to them, bodily
have white skin aud was born TO inherit
freedom and have slaves to obey me. They
have dark skin, were born to the inheritance
Of slavery, and are made TO serve me; the law
makes them my property now, and their issue
through all time TO come, belong to me, nv
heirs and assigns; to me and to those who hold
lnder me belongs the exclusive right to decide
The question you have no right inquire into the
title by which | hold my fellow man in bondage,
nor have you any right to determine what the
interest, welfare and happiness Of the many re-
luires in opposition TO my contingent rights
md expectations; when my SOW has pigs, they
IRE mine-and when my slave has children,
hey are mine also. He thinks of nothing, but
his legal right, by perpetuatinp
natural wrong-hs supposed contingent rivht
N unborn human beings-his right TO consign |
unborn children to slsvery-his right 10 fasten |
The worst OF evils upon those who shall come |
'fter him; his right to deprive the laboring |
white man of Just compensation for his toll: |
his right to continue the raising Of women and |
children as pigs for the market; his right 10 |
eparate the husband and wife, to deprive the |
parent Of the child and the child Of the parent; |
he right to prescribe what laws he pleases for
heir government; TO punish for what cause he |
'leases, or without any cause at all! Not con-
ent, to hold as long a. life lasts, the blood and
zones OF the present generation of slaves: not
ontent, to live himself upon the wear Of other
mems muscles and the sweat Of other mems
rows he claimsi II az bis exclusive right 10 fas-
en- on pos'erity. for all time to come, by n con-
titutional provision opposed TO the inalenabls
ighh OF self government in the people, an in
titution which will necessarily degrade the
DOR white man; yoke him with, or put him
Glow, the negro past redemption, or drive him
'om the country, while IL endangers the exis-
sncs Of those who remain. He seems not 10
onsider that the poor mans labor is entitled to
rejection when opposed TO the rich mems ehii.
rem. He tells You that where few men own
10 country, as well az the negroes to cultivate
Uhus making our most fertile countless COM
arative desert) the people are more wealthy in
roportion to their numbers, and consequently
ore happy, than where the same territory is
vided among the lsborers, and where the ten Z
1t is, or may be-, the owner Of as much Of |
Ie soil a. ne can cultivate to advantage; that .
hen You drive of the poor you relieve the s
late Of PauPers; that immigration to q State Is ,
'idence Of decay, whilst emigration from !
ate Is mark Of prosperity; that slavery is es-
initial to freedom, and that by driving off the 4
mmon people, it purges the country Of ignor- e
ice and vice; that population 10 an evil which
ways leaves q country where slavery makes
en- freemen to 60 to, and remain in q coun-
Y where freedom makes them slaves; that the h
salthy slassholdsr Il the only man who has Il
sure to study the rights Of man, and the in
rests Of the eountry; that consequently, be i /
g.