The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-12-01

been ertinguished; but the manumittsd slaves
have never beer forced from their homes and
native land. The experiment Of abslishing
slavery and permitting the freedmen to remain
in the same communities with their former mas
tiers has often been tried and has never failed.
History, in all its testimonies on this subject,
shows that expstriation is not necessary con-
comitsnt of emancipation; on the contrary,
IL shows that human wisdom and phianthro-
py have, in all cases of national extlrpation oil
slavery systems, decided that when slaves are
freed, It 10 to The mutual advantage OF both
classes that the freedmen shall coatinue on the
coil on which they labored while under the con-
troll OF task-nasters.
We have striking illustration Of this view
in the emancipation policy Of the Hebrsv",
who, instead Of driving the manumitted servant
away, sought, BY CHANTING high privileges es-
pecially Of religious character, and by the
constant manifestation Of kindly spirit towards
/ him, 10 make Palestine the land Of his choice
the home Of his heart.
| So far, then, ~ human experience can throw
| light ON the subject Of national emaneipations1
il is unquestionabIy a-flvor Of the proposition
that emsnclpstion sh.s be unaccompsnisi with
The se<03l States Of our confederaey In
which sysss@Itd bondage formerly existed and
have been abrotatsd. all adopted emancipation
on the soil az Tie wisest No one who Is oon-
versant with the results Of emancipation In
mae States will assert taat they initiate against
the position that emancipation on tho soil b
both safe and advantseelse 70 all conesrned.-
The Quaksrs were the % people who sook q
de:ided stand sguisse slavery. Some in
dviduals in that society. y long ago a. the frst
set,elnenl Of Psnnsylvanis. regarded the Pc
culiar institution an unchristian, and declared
against il Eut the conviction Of the duty Of
, emancipation did not become general among
them until after the middle Of the last century.
They at length decided that no one could
hold slaves and at the same time maintain
allegiance to christian principles, and adoptef
The plan of turning out of the Society all whs
preferred holding on to their slaves to theil
membership. The number of excommunica
lions was extremely small The Quakers lib
Grated their slaves, amounting, in the aggregate
to a very large number; and we are warranted
in saying that they subsequently had no Gauss
to regret that they obeyed the dictates of con
science and broke the bonds Of the Cypress
ed, and thus attssted their loyalty to Christ, tn
bond-breaker. They never regretted their con
= duet, for, by emancipating their slaves, the,
freed themselves from great many ineonveni
e ences, troubles and bad influences, and had tn
IL satisfaction of seeing those whom they la
ranumitted generally prospecting and dom
well.
lie The experience Of the United States is all i
u favor of emancipation on the soil.
&c The most interesting experiment the worl
&c has yet seen, which bears directly ON this sub
'e ject is that which was carried out in the Bit
o. ish West Indies. This experiment has peculis
interest and value for the people of the Unite
In States Emancipation was carried into effet
re In a number Of stands without colonization
IN and without any Of those gloomy consequence
is which are too generally considered as '..e legi
r innate fruits Of any plan Of emancipation o
e. the soil
4
l. the shareholders Of the South, TO the effect tn,
- West India eman cipation has failed, we have n
n, hesitation in saying there is not the slRhtei
II c,-.d-.svls rOr uay sucn position. % 'ar IToI
d il, indeed Is the truth. that declare that III
al magnificent experiment made by the BIRTHS
~ government in the West Indies is one Of ii
p most splendid triumphs Of wisdom and Philar
II thrOpy which the world has yet seen.
70 In the entire population of the British ss
D. India islands, the slaves formed avery large ma
a. jority of the whole. The slaves greatly outnum
% bereo the whites, and il was therefore, Sonten
ir ded that emancipation on the soil would be fol
70 lowed by riot, revenge, crime and bloodhhed-
al II was asssmed that all the crimes that disgrac
~ human nature would be- perpetrated by III
e slaves after they became free. Scenes Of IN
most atrocious nature presented themselves I
he the minds Of the opponents Of emancipation
y and Il was predicted that the blacks, being ia
"a more numerous than the whites, would rise u
IS in revenge against their former task masters
y would murder all the men, violate all the wo
men, butcher all the children, until earth she nj
Le display blacker scenes than Psndemonium al
d fords. The act Of the British Parliament too
5 effect on the first day Of August, 1885, and no
ID a scene Of horror Occurred-aye, not even
q word Of revenge was heard. The negroes re
q ceived the boon of freedom with Thankful
i hearts, and, as the chsins fell from their arms
u they extended them towards heaven, and. in
L stead of imprecations, they offered up prayer
and thanksgiving to the throne Of mercy. N
o hand was stained with blood-no slave-hode
y suffered any personal injury of any kind
% Quiet prevailed everywhere, and the onl
i sounds heard were those Of cheerful industr
10 and the music of grateful hearts.
No outbreak followed the act Of West Indii
= Emancipation. The negroes neither murders
"a their former masters nor stole their property
~ They went merrily to work for wages in thos
fields in which they had toed under the las
~ without any compe nsation. And from that da,
y until the present, through the tolls and vicissi
~ tudes Of fourteen years, the liberated black
have conducted themselves with far more gen
:, eral correctness of department than they dl
y while they We're retained in slavery.
Now, If in communities in which the black
greatly outnumber the whites, experience
- shows that emancipation the soil, so far fron
:" being curse to both races, is both safe and AL
~ vantageous, is IL not reasonable that all ,hos
y who have hastily acknowledged that white mel
" and black cannot live together safely and al
., vantageously unless the latter are enslaved
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