The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-01-20

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An aftsmst 70 snsUer some questions propaundsd
10 the serifsr "MOscs" by the Editors Of the
Ersminer.
GENrLiMEN:--The frst paragraph In my ar
ticle No. 3, was verbal correction of the typo
graphical errors In the one which preceded IL
IL you will show me fair play, can't zee what
excuse you can give for not printing it, 1t is
not unreasonable that should desire to be cor
recily understood. viii you not publish the
correction, and also the following in Nos. , and
4. In No. 3, line "a, for "not to" put mot 80;
for "Anglo Romans" put anglo Normans.'
In No. 4, for ave-" in line IS, put He "dif.
ference" in line SO, should be 'diserenees;;'
"rocls of igneous formation should read
rocks not Of igneous, &C.
You are rather complaining. gentlemen, that
do not answer certain questions. | do not
know that ought now to stop to answer them
more particularly than have been doing.
came 10 the conclusion, Immediately after read
ing the first number Of your paper, mo. 76)
which you were so kind as to send me, 10 write
a series Of articles upon the subject. saw at
once that your paper was very ably conducted,
and Ihsd no doubt that you had highly respec-
table class Of readers-I differed honestly
trastl from you, toto celo--I desired to address
your readers--I knew that they would never see
my articles if | wrote for any other Journal
do not so deceive nysef as to imagine that
what write will have any great weight with
any body, but know one thing very well, that
is, that to understand this question os il ought
to be- understood by MS all, before we elect dele
gates to the Convention next summer, il ought
to be discussed in all its length and breadth
think that people are in favor Of abolition and
emancipation because of their partial and limi-
ted views Of IT, do not think that | ever
argued for victory. My ancestors took some
part in achieving our Independence, and my
aim is the perpetuity of our confederaied Re-
public, the good Of our common country, and
truth. You cannot desire anything else But
10 arrive at the truth in this matter, we must
take very extended and comprehensive view
cate abolition and emancipation, set out BY
comparing Kentucky and the slave States with
the free States. | have set out to do the same
thing. | have, however, concluded to stop in
my series Of articles. aud answer, or try TO an
swsr some of your objections now, because l
am not well, and have very much to do, and |
lind IL much easier to answer your objections
than TO write one Of the series Of articles.
You ask me to give you authority for what
said In my first number. as TO the condition Of
the negro race in Africa. You surely know too
well the rules Of logic to require Of me any such
thing, IL were to say that there was not a
county in Kentucky in which the people did no,
grow cotton, would you not at once say that
bourbon, and require me TO prove that there
was. Now, If you will name any extensive ter
ritory in Africa, where the negroes have exclu-
sive control, in which they do not either capture
enc another in wars anG fheR kill them or sell
them into bondage. or sell their own children,
then will tell you what know about that part
Of Africa, and give you my authorities. IL
there be suy such place you ought to know it,
do not. As to the white men who have par.
lieiPated in these denominations, hold them in
utter adherence, though have no doubt there
have been good men who have been engaged in
The slave trade; as for Instance, the great En-
slsh divine, John Newton. And after ali, TO
udge according to mans Judgment, think
hat many slave traders will be as likely TO stand
II the right hand Of the Great Judge in the
lay Of final accounts, as those two Arch
Bishops, and twenty-four Bishops in England,
If whom Mr.. Alexander Campbell speaks, a. |
'eeeiving forty millions of dollars as a yearly |
ncOme, while the millions of their flocks are
lying from want and wretchedness
| never said that the slave trade was under |
he special patronage and sanction of Heaven. |
think the question is very fairly answered,
however, in number 3. You ask me, does slave
y, American slavery, regard marriage as sa.
red7
Ii has been my fortune 10 meet with many
Gentlemen who have travelled extensively in
europe, some Of whom have sojourned several
ears in all the larger States in Europe; and |
ave read some books on the subject; and from
What these books and these gentlemen tell me, |
ave no doubt that there are in proportion TO
he population, as many chaste and virtuous
larried slaves in the United States, as there ara
'arried free women in Europe. The commits
ioRsrs appointed by Parliament 10 examine into
he state Of education in Wales, say that in that
ouniry they reverse the French practice; that
}, that there are scarcely any Of the girls who
re virgins when they marry think there is
o man who ever stsid a week in New York
ity, but will say that there are more prosti.
utes who promenade Broadway at night than
here are virtuous women who walk there. dur-
ng the day. Where do they all come 'front.'
lot from the slave States, certainly, for very
bvious reason. But for exciting the ire of our
eighbors nearer home, across the Ohio River.
could tell something Of their great purity. II
} not for argument sake, or TO compliment the
'hite women in the slave States, that | affirm
lat they are the chastest and purest women in
he world; but because IL is faef-to their ev.
Tlasting honor be spoken. Does all this count
IT nothing1 In making up the crown of this
'untry's jewels, does The angel purity of the
ir daughters Of the South count for nothinp7I
what States were the Presidents of these u mi.
ID States born! Did their pure mothers have :
o part in forming their characters1 That great
nd good man. John Quincy Adams, said more :
ian once in Congress-.and he seems always TO
ave said it with a feeling of intense morti6ca-
the men of the slave States had al