The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-06-23

' parts Of the South they are as humanel
a tteated as slaves can we'll be--especiall
in those parts where they are not hume
! Gus. Where they are numerous and III
soil is worn almost 10 barrenness-such
! the appropriateness Of their labor, tbs
) masters are necessitated 10 work them har
and supply them scsntily with. food an
! clothing. Otherwise neither whites no
! b. acks could live al all. True, slavery il
self is the cause Of this Necessity, and O
slave breeding as the last resort of master
for living but all this is no evidence
that even these masters are cruel men. Gus
Tom and necessity reconcile their feelings Il
what would otherwise be as abhoneni 4
them as it is % the feelings Of other men
Finaliy--respecling the moral inAuenc,
OF cities.
The effect OF congreganng men IN cities
is 10 stimulate their minds 10 every sort O.
activity. A city is a hive Of industry
Every motive to exertion is constantly pre-.
sent 10 the inhabitants. Hence, the virtue,
ano the vices both assume a higher inten
sity. There is more good and more evil
done ia the city than in The county, snd
generally more in the neighborhood of the
city than in the distance, where rural quiet
feels not the excitement produced by The
hum and the hustle of busy mullitudes.
Cities are the glowing ard radiaiing cen
tres OF knowledge, Of art, Of social refine.
ment, OF great vices in some, OF great and
benificent virtues in many. To Judge cor
reclly Of their moral influence, We must
look at both sides Of the acc, unit. After
deducting their pauperism. their vices and
their crimes, there remains ,ln immense sur.
plus Of wealth, Of virtue and of sbene6cial
influences upon general society. To Illus
trate one trait in the character of cities, we
shall mention fact, which is recorded in
the American Almanac for 1916, page 165.
In 45 years, the people OF Boston yolunts-
rily contributed almost incredible sums to
benevolent objects, besides their private
charities TO the Poor-namey,
/. To objects of religious character,
besides the support Of Their own
churches and ministers, 81 ,05f, 1858
2. To Schools and Institutions for
purposes Of instruction, 1895, S94
3. To Public Institutions for chsnta-
bic purposes, 2,i62 ,iI2
4. Miscellaneous objects, 43S, S2l
Total, s4.75I 1894
Which averages, per year, Sl06, $50
For an average population of 1000. OF
at most $4,000 souls, many Of whom were
poor, and unsble to contribute any thing.
The sums given ate not conieoturally est
mated, buI oo!lsu,ed from actual records,
and do not express the whole amount.-
Many unrecorded donations were glven Tor
benevolent obj iH the South and West.
Are We extravaganza in expressing the
belief that Boston contributed more in those
years for the objects specified than all the
Agricultural SHAREHOLDERS OF the South? II
any one be surprised and incredulous al this
suggestion, let hun exhibit facts to show
the contrary before he presunes TO contra
diet it,
We conclude tbs part OF the argument,
with few words on popular education
and pcpolsl isuorsnce in the two sections
of the Union. On this point, MIR. Fisher
is Obliged to concede that his favorite sys-
tenn Of slavery lies under great dissdvan-
tsge. In fact illiteracy and ignorance
reign among the poor white people OF the
South. Slavery deprives their children Of
schooling. The slaves are in general bru-
tally ignorant. The poorest class of white
people are generally but degree above
them in mental improvement. The North
ern system provides for the education OF the
whole people. Every mind has the oppor
tunity Of becoming intelligent. Every .al.
ent Of every mind has the means Of i'm.
provemen,, and a f:ir field for its exercise.
What wonder, then, that in literature and
science, in arts and industry. in wealth and
population, in all the elements of greatness
and Of progress, of intellectual and moral
dignity, Of high enioyments and high hopes,
the North is incomparibly superior to the
South? What is the cause Of this deplora.
BILE difference in the two sections OF the
country? 1t is slavery, and that alone. No
one pretends 10 assign any other cause
And shall nothing be done, where so much
may be done, to remove this blighting evil
from some, at least, of the Southern States!
We shall conclude our review with some
remarks on pldaS Of Emancipation.
Negro slaves in america have been
emancipated in divers ways within the last
so or 90 years.
1. In Hayli by revolt. 2. In the Brit
ish West Indies by the mother country.
8. In the Spanish American States by an
act declaring them free citizens at once
4. In several Of our Northern States, by an
act Of gradual emancipation. 5. By indi-
viduals, in the Southern States, with or
without colonisation.
Mr.. Fisher, re-ecboing the cry Of preju-
diced proslavery men in the South. de-
clares all these experiments TO be failures
to have produced only evil consequences.
We deny that they are failures We
affirm, on the contrary, that they have re-
suited fsvorably to the happiness OF man
kind. We shall consider them one by
one, abbreviating our retnarks as much as
possible.
/. Hnyti:
Mr.. T. says that the Hay,ian negroes
shave relspsed into positive barbarism. "
The assumption is untrue. They have not
"relapsed at all; but nave risen degree
above the pristine barbarisn" Of their
condition, as brutally ignorant slaves under
the lash OF their task-mssters. Their in.
dustry ard civilisation are of low order;
but they export millions worth q produce
yearly; end their late history shows that
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