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

II TO be indispensable to the
anna that some restrictions shall
lie immigration Of slaves. He shows
exclusively, that there are too many slaves
The State already. and that further imports-
tons will increase an evil which is already sorely
felt. His letter is one of the most remarkable
productions which we have lately seen, and yet
it has not met with any particular attention at
home or abroad Judge Heydenfeldt is, we are
informed, one of the most able and influential
citizens of the State. He was born and has al
ways lived in the South, and his plan contem-
plates the security and profit Of slave-labor. He
is, therefore, well qualifedto give testimony on
the most interesting question of the day.
He SAYS that there already exists in Alabama
the "gem of an anti-slavey party" made up
Of those who are "weared with the struggle OF
unproductive labor, and desire more populous
education" and those who look upon the slaves
as their rivals in production. He says that
numbers are added every day to those who long
to see slavery extirpated, and that, unless some
conservative plan is adopted, the time will come
when capital invested in that "species Of pro-
perty' will be PROSTATE at blow. To avoid any
calamity of the kind, he proposes that hereafter
no more slaves shall, under any pretext, be ad-
mitted INTO the State, and that SHAREHOLDERS en-.
gage in some other kinds ofenterprise than those
they,are accustomed to. He says the State of Ala
bama is poorer now than she was fifteen years
ago, notwithstanding that within that period she
has expended nearly ten millions of foreign CAPT
tai within the limits of the State, for which q
heavy debt now hangs over her people. Hel
"resources for taxation are diminishing every
day" and her political strength is "yelding tc
the rottenness Of system which must finally
reduce it to cipher"
He thinks that some persons may deem such
confessions ''inpudent" at the present time
What he says is true, TO some extent, Of every
other slaye-holding community as well as o.
Alabama. We have no doubt that the soon
stitutional Incidence of which he speaks as ex
listing among the Alabama SHAREHOLDERS, vii
effectually prevent the adoption Of any grea
Temedialplans. Emigration to new countr,
is the only remedy that SHAREHOLDERS ever adopted
TO nd themselves of evils Of the kind OF which
Judge Heydenfeldt complains. Ifslavey is no
extended beyond its present limits, the time vii
come when that remedy will fail, and then thef'
will be no alternative but emancipation or fight
The STAKEHOLDER will run away from his slaves
or the slaves will be manumitted and run ava,
from him.
The picture the Judge draws Of Alabama i,
truly melancholy. She is poorer now than sh,
was fifteen yesrs ago, notwithstanding she con
tains within her bosom millions of acres Of un
cultivated land Of the finest quality, and La
immense water power, coal, iron, lead, maj
BILE, granite, lumber and turpentine," and i
well situated for commercial purposes And
YET, despite these great ard numerous advantages
she is retrograding at this early perod in her his
tory! What fearful commentary on the effect
Of slavery on State which enjoys delightful
climate and abouhds in all those natural resour
ces from which the prosperity of oommuntie
spring.
We feel that 10 add any thing to this pictur
would be to mar its effect Wecallthe attention
of Kentuckians to the condition of Alabama
and invoke Them TO be wise before il is too late
and to eXtiIpate slavery before it has utterl,
ruined our proud Commonwealth.