The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-04-14

These statements show how little reason
there is TO apprehend over population in
this country. Two million inhabitants in
Kentucky would give US only so to the
square mile, and 4, 100000 woald bring US
only to the standard Of Massachusetts,. Ii
is no, pretended ihat the latter State has a
population too dense for the comfort of its
inhabitants. Bot suppose our population
stood at two millions or only fifty 10 the
square mile and these were all free white
citizens. The advantages would be these:
1. Our aggregate wealth would be more
than three-fold its present amount.
z. Our immense agricultural, mineral,
and commercial resources would be devel-
oped-. r ..-re ls..-.-.
3. We should possess complete system
OF popular education. So long as our pop
ulation is sparse-and il will be sparse IN
I'll slavery becomes extinct-it will be I'M
possible to establish a system Of free schools.
Such system among a population Of 19
to the square mile i, simply an impossible
ity. H
4. A population moderately large inSures
good roads and bridges and canals and rail
ways. If there be slave country on earth
where these improvements abound, am ig-
norant OF its existence. One reason why
Ohio has between seven and eight hundred
miles Of canal navigation and three hundred
miles of railway, while Kentucky has next
to none Of either. is that Ohio has free pop
ulation Of nearly two millions while we
have less than seven hundred thousand.-
A free population OF fifty to the square mile
would never abide sucn roads and bridges
as we have in Kentucky.
5. The multiplication OF churches and
other religious and philanthrOPic institu-
tons follows large population Of free citi-
zens.
6. The growth of our towns would be
insured by the increase Of our population.
We hear it urged that large cities are cur
ses to themselves and to the countries where
they spring up. But Of the people Of Lou
isville. who are opposed to emancipation,
how many would deplOre the growth of the
city to the size Of New York; How many
OF our friends in jefferson county would
be willing to see the city abandoned and
destroyed! How many Of the Lexington
or Frankfort or Bowling Green merchants
would lament the accession of ten thousand
inhabitants to their couniiesl Or would
the farmers in their counties regret the
growth OF these towns to the size of Louis
vile or Cincinnati Would the rich men
and poor men in Scott or Shelby county,
who now cry out against emancipation and
free States and large cities. be ineconeila-
bly, opposed TO the establishment Of a LO-
well near Shelbyville and Rochester on
the site Of Georgetown? | rather think
not.
The Louisville Journal has shown a no
bic devotion to the interests Of the city,
Will not the editors admit that, but for the
existence Of Slavery, it would have taken
the lead, Gar away, Of every western ciyl-
Do they not perceive that the substitution
OF free white labor for negro slave labor
would add tens Of thousands to its popula-
ten and millions to its wealth? The day
that terminates slavery will make Kentuc-
ky the empire State and Louisville the en-
press city Of the West.
Z. The political power Of the State de
ponds on the greatness Of its PoPulation.-
| append table for exhibiting the number
Of Representatives in Congress assigned TO
Kentucky and the free States adjacent, at
various periods. add the number 70 which
the States will probably be entitled after
1850. assuming that the ratio will be fixed
at one hundred thnnssnd. -