The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-07-14

m ulant but the brute force Of the lash TO dri
~ him TO work. lie labors with a heavy hes
g. and crushed spirits. Is IL wonder, then, th
Of there is such great disparity between The D.
OF ducts OF the free and slave StatesY -
ID But slavery cripples the other energies of OF
g. State. Kentucky was admitted into The Unio
n N 1892 sad Ohio in 1902. Kentucky had ts
ST years the START Of her. But Ohio has outstrippt
= her, for in 1910, Kentucky had population
u llY,o2S, and Ohio had population of ,5I9
e 400, nearly double the population Of Keniuck,
e ONO is literally checkered with railroads an
c canals, while Kentucky has almost none. Obi
c IS engaged much more extensively In manufac
r ture1 than this State, yet she has not create
D manufacturing resources. Here, in your ow
: county, your have the greatest water power
pouring itself in magnificent waste from tn
nils and vallies, for the want of that cspits
aud enterprise which slavery has made torpid
But the gentleman enquiries who wants manu-
lectures in Kentucky Who will raise the pro
duce and raw material if everybody goes to tn
iscioriesl Now, fellow citizens, / do not ex
} peci nor do wish Kentucky TO become an ex
clusiyely manufacturing State. She will al
ways be TO a great extent an agricultural conn
try. But yon aud all Of US must desire 10 see
fair division Of labor In Kentucky, that we ma,
be more independent Of our sister States for
what we eatand wear and work with. Ard We
Kentucky, and the North is abused as drawing
support from the Federal pap, while The South
pays the taxes for the support OF government.
Now, this abuse Of the North may be lust or
| unjust, but IL certainly must sound harshly on
your ear coming from the distinguished gentle
man, 10 whom for the last ten years as the
champion OF the principles Of the Whis party
IN this section, you have listened SO ofIen with
enTapiured silence. You would shrink from
I @ h. r. .Nr....a
wrought eulogiSms you have heard from that
gentleman on the great American system In
stead Of abuse of man ufactures, the operatives
and The North, the gentleman four Years ago
was defending them and pronouncing panegrIcs
On the Lowell girls. Sirs, kentucKy will need
no tariff Of protection. She needs protection
from slavery. Renounce slavery and YOU Sc
cure to Kentucky the wisest and best protec
ton TO her enterprise and Industry, a great and
free people ever enjoyed.
Felow-citzens, 1t is not for dollars and cents
clone that desire the remoY al OF slayeIy-it is
the highest duty of States as II is of individuals
10 educate their children. Kentucky has moi
performed the first duty Of a good parent. nor
can she do 1t while slavery conunues here. No
save State believe ever has perfected or can
be peHiect and carry out a system OF common
SCHOOLS. Kentucky Is laI behind Ohio In her
educational prosperity. Kentucky expended last
year m common schools about $1,000 and in
SIS Ohio apportIOnei 10 her common schools
s2s9, 9S5, 25. Last year IN our Stale there werebut
a !ew hundred land large proportion of them IN
your county and PulaskD children at our schools.
while OHIO dunng the same period had at her
schools 63, o3S children. But the gentleman
says when he was IN Congress the new States
always received every sixteenth section of pub
nc lands Tor education purposes, and in this way
Ohio got the start Of kentucky; that Kentucky
received no such aid. But the gentleman did
net tell YOU that Arkansas and other slave Stale
received the same quanlum OF lands and VET
have made no progress. lie did not tell you thai
AaSsac .uSclls, which received no donation OF
lands from the government, paid annually
$50 62S, 3 for the education Of lis, 77G of her
chIdren IN her common schools. But, gentle
men, IL Is not true that such is the source of the
school fund OF ONO. Her school fund Yields
ss6, 4IS, l6, and the remainder Of over SlOO, COO
the State pays 10y taxation. That the people
OF Kentucky voted the tr0 cents tax forscbools
was generous, was noble But this tax with the
proceeds Of tolls on the rivers will be of no avail
while We have slavery. In the rich slave coun-
ties the population Is TOO sparse fOr sChOols-that
section - dense with negroes and their children
The more thlckly populated Districts will not
adopt 1t, If Il Is not geaeTal-they will not be de-
pendent on their rich slaycholdIng neighbOrs for
a charity education. They believe, whether il
Is true OF not, that the large STAKEHOLDER is not
willing to send ms children TO a common school,
Give us free State and we will have common
schools and universal education.
We are told, however, fel!ow-ciiiIens, that al
though Kentucky does look TO be considerably
behind her neIghbOr, nevertheless the Truth Is,
though II has been but seldom seen, that she Is
before her nelghbOr and Is much mole prosper
ous IL Is declared that the whole wealth OF
Kentucky divided out among all her citizens will
give 20 each about $500, aud the whole wealth
Of OHIO divided ont among all her citizens will
give To each about S25O-and therefore Ken
lucky is more prosperous than Ohio Well, now
venture to assert that my friend here is not the
oTgInal author of this sapient logic. The dis
covery Of tins astounding fact, and the inference
from n, was made by a mOno-manlac In Ohio
called Ellwood Fisher. 1t looks very much like
had northern allies, or OF least was
very ready 10 use them. L want nothing to do
with these fanatics Of the north which ever side
Of the question they may be on. | say TO them
as our old friend Charley Sempe did, stay on
your own side of the river but will not do as
he did, bow and thank them for small favors |
and take their help. prefer TO depend on my
self and investigate the authentic statistics for |
myself Now, ielow-cItizens, is it true that Ken.
tueky is now more prosperous than Ohio, be-
Cdust tHS dgsitBdtC III INC olat6 ulNlutu VIII |
give TO each citizen a much larger sum than the
aggregate wealth Of Ohio will divided out TO each
Of her citizens. Look at the absur1ity of this |
proposition. Here is the town of Stanford in
our State, one OF the O,destt towns we have, with
a population Of 800, or 400. She is making no
progress in improvement, though she has clever
and respectable population, IN fact it is ocular
ly said of her that she is the only town that eueT
ras finished. Now take the wealth Of this town
and divide il out among her citizens, and she
will give more in the division TO each of her cti-
zens than the city Of Louisville will to each Of
her citizens, and therefore Stanford is more pros
most Of the towns in the State, and the same re-
suit will be found. Yet nobody will pretend TO
say that Stanford is as prosperous as the great
city Of the Falls. Rome at the time of her de-
cline, stretching from beyond the Pillars of Her
cules TO the Caspian Sea, embracing a great
part Of central Europe, had population Of over
a hundred million, millions Of them slaves be-
longing to the patIician and noble order. And
in her worst and least prosperous days before
her fall, the aggregate wealth of the empire
would have divided TO each free citizen hundreds
Of thousands of dollars. Kentucky wants no
such prosperity II is true, wealth is one Of the
elements and indexes Of pTospenty--wealth and
population, the right kind Of population, an in
telligent, educated, moral population, constitute
the great elements OF national prosperity.
II is announced here today that liberty and
free government are a nuisance-that all free
States are filled with crime and pauperism-
that the slave States are exempt from these evils.
This gentleman is another Eshsrism Where
are our thousands Of psupeT idiots, paupers in
the county poor houses and supported by the
committees of our county courts, and the long
list Of supersnuated, decTepid pauper negroes in
those poor houses on our farms, the negro cabins?