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

that a. common schools cannot |
exist in State where large proportion Of the |
Iaborsrs are slaves, slavery tends thus by pro- |
noting ignorance, TO promote conservatism; |
thai Internal improvements, commerce, manu- |
factures, the mechanic arts, and all things
which give employment TO, and tend 10 elevate
the laboring poor-to attract or retain them an
the country and furnish them subsistence, in
as much as they tend TO remove the distinctions
Of society and diminish the pro rata of wealth,
are evidences Of bad government and improve
dent legislation.
Thus we are told that New England with her
inhospitable cline and $1,000 square miles oil
once sterile, but now productive land; her two
and a half millions Of Inhabitants, with only
% 900 blacks; her l75,OO0.0OO Of dollars OF
annual productions; her SIS, goo children in
her primary schools; her "A, 600 students IN her
academies; her 5000 students In her colleges;
with not one out Of fifty Of her grown white
population but can read and write, is worse
governed--more badly managed than Virginia
with her delightful temperate cline, her IO,OOO
square miles Of once fertile but now sterile land;
with but 100000 whites, and 5OO,OOO blacks,
and but 100000 Of annual production; but
&c, 900 children going TO primary schools; but
IL 900 students attending her academies, and
but 900 receiving a collegiate education, and
where one in ten Of her adult population can
neither read nor write; for say they, Virginia
can show greater amount Of wealth in proper
ton to her white population than can New
England. And how is this made QUIT In
Eastern Virginia, where the slave strength chief
/ ly lies, nearly every landholder owns more
slaves than he can proftably employ; the poor
white man can then obtain no employment as a
hireling; he can get no land to cultivate. Ne
! cessity, then, drives him from the land Of his
birth, or makes him q thief or course the
poor Iaborers from other States do not migrate
TO State where the poor native cannot live
The wealthy and those who are too poor 10
leave are all who remain. thus by driving on
The poor half Of the whites, and valaing the
persons Of twO-fifths Of those who remain 1.-THE
blacks you swell the pro rata Of individual
wealth, and proclaim to the world an example
of surprising prosperity, when in reality that
portion Of the State which most contributes 10
swell her pro rata Of apparent wealth. is but an
extensive community Of pauPers, for what Is q
large tract of land made poor by bad tillage
overstocksd with half lied, half clothed negroes
part Of whom have TO be sold and driven Oh
each year 10 keep down the increase and sup
ply the remainder with food and clothing, buI
Poorbouss on large scale, miserably badly
managed and ill-proVided for at that; and ye
such farm would tell prodigiously on the com
missionsr's books, viz: A. b. owns
acres VI pOOI NOflA tAO
400 negroes, valued at $500 each, 10000
Horses, cattle, mules, &C., 1000
Total, SlS0,00l
To white family Of ten persons this woul'
amount to the great sum Of $4,000 each, ye
these 400 persons are on the verge Of starvation
and from 10 to - of their number have to b
torn from their kith snd kin yearly, and sold Il
the sou-driyers TO keep the souls of the balanc
within their bodies. God forbid that we shoull
ever see Kentucky thus enriched. But We ar
told that the record shows more crime in pro
; portion in the free than in the slave States
How is this1 Are there fewer capital punish
ments in the slave than in the free Statesl No
! at all, If you include the slaves executed. Bu
there are fewer conviets in their Penitentiary
And why 10 il sOS To the disgrace Of humani
", the law measures punishment not accOrdin
|. 10 crime but station; the white gentleman j
often excused, and even honorsd, for what III
negro suffers death. And again: there is N
penitentiary for the slave-the lash and the gal
lows are the only penelties-the State hang
and the master fogs. The conviet's fate woal,
= often be blessing to the negro. And again
there are acts which the slave may commit will
impunily, which are criminal and disgracefu
in the white. Thus: there is no marriage re
lation recognised among slaves. The interes
, of the master requires that the stock shall in
crease, for on that he lves-it is fosd. clothing
education, and everything 10 his family; henc
adultery and prostitution become virtues, an,
instead OF bastardy being disgrace, it is tn
source Of profit 10 the master, and indulgence q
the mother. But were fair and Just rscor'
, kept in q community where there are lsrg'
number Of slaves, Of all the crimes, with III,
punsshsa4ai. i-fissAd. 4 ana -~si-E~a s~~s $780,
, would be found ten times As much crime In
, slave as in a free community Of the same mum
bers; at least there would be ten times as mucl
| punishment, the infection Of which, unneces
sarly, would itselfbe crime Of the deepest dye
. But it is said that among the whites, there Il
less crime in the slave than in the free States
This may be so. When oppression and wan
have forced the poor white man 10 the commis
SION Of crime In q slave State, he most generally
finds his way TO a strange land, and arriving IN
a free country, his crimes are charged to thu
community in which he resides, rather than tC
the country where he received his education
But the greatest and most atrocious crimes ar.
the offspring of slavery itself, and 90 unppnlsh
ed. Your STAKEHOLDER Is q cavalier, and is won
to talk great deal about ehivalry. His son !.
gentleman of leisare-hs is brought up tc
command the slave, who Is bound 70 obey II,
quickly learns TO use the lash. He has leisure
to practice with the pistol. Helearns TO flourish
the bowie knife. Selfeon6dent, he stands ready
for row, q scrape, a duel, or what not. When
working -men fight and kill, il is manslaughtsr
and they are punished. When duels among
gentlemen end in death, they die on the field Of
homer, and the slayer reaps renown. Having
Pinksd his friend, he assumes consequently
comes arrogant and offensive, and is often the
seourge of that society which, by its false Opin-
ion, has made the worst Of crimes ereditabls.
So far from slavery being conducive to good
government, good morals. or national wealth
and prosperity, hold il to be the very bane OF
each and all.
IL the evils which have described do not ac-
company slavery in Kentucky at present, IL il
only because slavery has not arrived at its &C me-
but to this point, all the efforts Of our proslave-
ny friends tend. b. F. BEpISerR.
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