The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-07-14

Loss of time, SO
4" by neglect, 1870
10y stealing, 100
Annual cost hired slave, SLED, 81
Such is the enormous cost Of hired slave lsbo
TO our non-slaveholding friends. In every as
pect Of the case il is an injurious system TO the
non-slaveholdeT. 1t presses heavily upon him
No class Of the community is benefited by IT.
| asked iTend OF mine how many slaves he
OWEcl-he replied that he belonged b twenty.
Mr. Henry Harlan, an intelligent gentleman and
one Of the woTthiest citizens OF NV county, cor.
recty said "that the negroes were the landed
arlstocrscy Of the country, that they had pos
session Of all the nch and fertile lands in the
State, and the poor men had 10 work the hills
and bauens; that as long as slavery lasted we
must keep them, for man with O. large family
and a moderate farm could not divide out his
land; he must keep his land TO supper. his ne
groeS and he must keep his negroes 10 work the
land" This excellent citizen has large family,
and some of has sons have had TO Iemoye many
hundred miles from their family 10 Missouri, on
the frontiers Of our great country to get lands 10
cultivate Such is the condition Of the chill
dren Of many OF our people, and VII be the con-
ditiOn Of the children Of some of US. live dis
pose OF our slaves and induce our sons TO work
our lands, We will lose caste in the community.
ANA VIC NnulN Aot btN Jul SOuS u 20 lut ldbOE
while our neighbors work theirslaves, fof slavery
has degraded labor. This is not right. Labor
honorable, II is godllke, II is an institution Of
God, and all men should labor. But fellow
citizens, are not our ne!ghbOrs and friends driv-
en- from our State by the competition Of slave
labor and the degraded level 10 which slavery
has brought white labor? Is it not palpable that
white men are displaced by negroes in proper
ton as they fiji the oountIyl About two hun
dred thousand neeToes now fiji the State instead
Of that number Of our own race. In the Ian
guage Of DR.. Breckenridge, an eminent states
man as well as divine, 81 am for union OF the
white race" ! am for the white man first for
love my own race best | am against this
system OF slavery because II dives our own kin
dTed and blood from our Stale and substitutes
the negro for him. They are not only exiled
from their families and homes, but those Of them
that remain are driven from labor By The compe-
tition Of this degraded seryile negro labor The
agricultural class Is not the only class of labor
els affected by il All mechanical laborers are
now brought. into competition with It. In the
town Of DanylLe every pursuit OF the handi-
craftsman and mechanic Is fast beng filled 10y
slaves. We have in that small town negro car
penteTs, blacksmiths, timers, shoemakeTs, brick
makers, bncklsyeTs, bnckmssOnS, stone InssOns,
pasteTeTs, painters, papeI-hangeTs aud taIloTs.
This Is the case I'M almost all the counties In the
State. | say here to-day large stout dJlsky ne
gro, and when | asked something about him
was told he belonged 10 some one whose name ! 1
do not nov remember, and that he Was a tailor
in your town. So well filled alTeacy are the
businesses Of the shoemaker and blacksmith
with negroes that they will drive the white man
from these pursuits, first, by their competition
and next by the degradation which hey always
bring with their laboTs. ia little while a free
white man Will feel such business 20 be as de-
graded as a false public sentiment now oompels
him 10 feel setting tables, working gardens, &c.
TO be. The negro, though he makes had me-
chanic, is more profitable 10 his master as such
than as a mere laboTer The SHAREHOLDERS in
terest vii. induce him TO make mechanicsof his |
slaves. Is such system, can such a system
be just TO car mechanics Ii is the interest Of
every mechanic and non-slaveholder in the State |
10 assert his nights and cry aloud for the removal
Of this evil.
II is but little palliative Of the injustice Of
this system that il is urged that wages are BET. |
ter here, than where slavery does not exist. |
The enlightened and patriotic artisan and agri. /
cultural laborer, IL such be a fact, can readily /
understand IT, From all departments of labor |
our citizens are driven by the bighting social |
effects Of slavery. Our young men are above
work and they betake themselves TO i1leness ano
dissipation Hundreds and thousands in Ken
work season, and then they act the idle gem
tleman for a season 10 wear Of the degrading ef. |
fects Of their labor. Besides such paltry con-
sderations do not compensate the laboriDg man
for the loss of education to his children and the
loss OF that high social position which he and |
his children after him would attain by their NOR
al and intellectual culture, but from which ala
very forever debars them. The laboring man
is not 50 dull as not TO see all the inevitable evils
in the train Of slavery:
.fThe potent rod
or Abrams son, in Egypt's evil day,
Waved round the Coast"
never brought upon the realm of impious Pha.
roah a more whitening, blighting curse.
Fellow-citizens, slave labor Is not only more
costly than free white labor, but IL is less pro-
ductive. Let us examine the comparative pro-
ductiveness Of the two kinds Of labor. What
does each man engaged In agriculture in Ohio
producsl What does each man In Kentucky
produce7 What does each acre Of land in these
respective States yield1 These facts can be as
certained. make my statements from the
United States census made by authority Of Con-
gress, and from the statistical tables of an ex-
IRENE Southern paper, the n. o. Commercial
Times;
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