The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-03-24

not his own. Yet the accountability must he
son'ewhsre. If the slave is ignorant, degraded
and vicious, some one must be responsible for
his ignorsnce, degradation and vice And upon
whom does this responsibility devoive1 Upon
whom can ii devolve except upon the MASTER
In becoming the ewsser of a slave, man as
sumss the moral accountability Of that slave.
An undesirable and fearful assumption, il
seems to u.s.. We know not how others may
feel, but for ourselves the load of our own re-
sponsibility Is quite much as we like TO bear.
We should regret exceedingly 10 answer for
others sins. finding It sufficiently hard to an
swer for our own.
9. Slavery is wrong to the children of the
owner.
Slaves, as class, are ignorant and degraded,
incapable Of exerting pure, moral or intellec-
tual influence over the young-yet, to them, the
care OF the young is In great measure confided.
During the period when the most lasting i'm
Pressions are made ami when Il Is Of infinite inn
pOrtance that right Impressions be made, the
young are entrusted to those who are, far too
often, morally incapable Of making right i'm
preston upon mind or heart. Is not this
wrong1 IL il net an actual wrongi Are there
not many men and women in our midst who tell
us. that Il has taken them months and years to
remove the impressions made upon them in their
susceptible years, impressions which have long
rendered them the victims Of superstitious fears,
of which, even when suffering, they have been
utterly ashamed
Slavery impsirs the independence of the
young. Children accustomed to being waited
on, served, become dependent upon those who
serve thera. They, In truth, become the slaves
Of their slaves. INSTEAD OF relying upon their
own energy and activity, and doing promptly
themselves what they wish to have done, they
must put in requisition the services Of one or
more attendants. Thus their own powers lie
dormant and useless Hence many grow up to
manhood and womanhood helpless, and utterly
destitute Of all power Of self-support and self
dependence; and hence. also, many grow up
with contempt for labor which renders them
mere drones in the social hive. Such is the
legitimate influence CT slavery upon the young,
though that influence is often counteracted by
the wisdom and fidelity Of parents. who, seeing
the tendency, earnestly guard against IL.
Slavery sometimes proves a deadler wrong
to the children Of slave-owners. All Of us.
who have lived in the midst of slavery, have
known too many instances, instances written in
hoods dark lines upon memory's page, of deeds
OF violence, done in moments of passion by
men, who, in childhood's hours, were wont
freely to vent their anger upon the slave-chi-
dren around them, and who thus grew to man.
hood with passions unchecked and urgoverned,
utterly destitute Of self-contTol, and utterly I'M
mt for temptations trying hour Could all the
dark deeds which owe their existence to this
fearful system be written in their own dark
lines, volume would be produced repulsive in
deed to the eye and painful to the heart, but a
most eloquent Pro,es, against slavery as the fatal
foe to the young.
Slavery is a wrong TO the Slave. II denie,
him the right of liberty. that right dear to the
humbIest being, without which the palace of
luxury is prison, with which poverty's Iowly
dwelling becomes the abode of peace and happi-
ness. Ii denies him the sacredness of marriage.
when the slave prcnounces the solem n vow of
Affection he knows that at any moment the
command may come for him to break the VOW
and bid farewell to the companion chosen as
his life-friend. For him there Is no marriage.
Tor him no law sanctions the marriage rite, and
no law frowns upon the fOrcibIs suaderipg of
the marriage tie. At any moment, when ca
price may dictate or avarice tempt the slave
husband and slave-wife may be torn asunder
and forever.
Slavery denies the slave the sacreduess Of
home. He has no spot on earth which he NAV
call his own, no asylum Of the affections where
the INTRUDER may never come Wife and chIl-
dren, home and heart, are ali at the mercy Of
others We speak now Of the system of slave
ry. That system, as we all know, in many.
very many instances, through the humanity
and kindness of masters, loses these repulsiye
features. Hundreds Of families are there In
Kentucky, in which tho tenderest care is exert-
ed ovef the slave, in which his feelings as
husband and father are sacrsdly regarded. Still.
however many such iristancesof kindly afFec-
ton there may be. the essential nature Of The
system remains the sumo In theory. in not
practice, the slave is denied the inaliep. bIe
rights which We have mentioned. And other
rights, as dear and sacred, are denied him. He
is denied the right Of intelligence In some
States Of the Union the enieayor 10 ;mn.r, |
knowledge to slave stamps the offender as |
feion, and exposes him by law to a felon,s |
fate. Thank heaven, no such relic of bsrhs,.
ism disgrsces the Statutes Of Kentucky, but the
existence Of such a law in the States, where In.
PrePonderates over all other I'm.
teresis, proves the essential character of ,hs
system, and demonstrates how terrible a vrong
slavery is to the slave.
such is slavery; wrong to the master. IN
The masters children, and 10 the slave. II
wrong to the whole community, wrone to re.
wrong to religion. The tree i.
corrupt, and must produce corrupt fruit. Some
'esutifui vines Of affection may be sntyined
around its trunk, but they cannot coyer It's
''''snnsss-l Some fsir.irnif map .ppsa, an IN.
branches, but only when hung thefe by the
rand OF Kindness Such fruit never can grovv
lPon the tree. The tres is evil and can ba.,
'nly evil fruit
We are very much grsai6ed to learn that the !,
'feyermarkiscAe bend are to give in tho course q
. The coming week, series of their delightful
oncerts, at the Odd Fellows Hall. Those who /,
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