Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-10-06
WHOLE NO. 522.

Of oil tho Southern States, we take it that none
would lind abolition easy as Kentucky if size
would only really set about the work. The dis,us
sion OF the subject of emancipation, owing chiefly
to the courage and constancy Of Mr.. {. NJ CmN
has been kept alive within her borders: nor hi,.
she ever had solemn fanatic like Calhoun to keen
her In the ranks of immobility outright Bcin,r
tangent to the whole Free North, and the populn.
ton bordering on the Ohio being so tempered by
better ideas than fall to the lot IF those out oe
sight and sound Of liberty, she exhibits according
y positon--however faint it be- 20 cast of
the shackles which bind her to cold and cruel pre
cedents. In excmplifcation Of this, take the fol-
lowing from The Neupou Ne,rs!
at has been proposed to us by several gentle
men who own slaves in Kentucky that they ltha.
slavehodersl hold Convention at Frank fort tj
adopt some plan fer the abolition of Slavery and
that we so announce it and that the Hon. " |,
Luke OF Pendleton County, n STAKEHOLDER be an
pointed by the friends of the Convention as one mi
this part of the State to draw up proposition ivs
its gradual abolition"
Will this be realized If the blacks were set
Tree in lump, kentueky would be richer on tho
instant. The mere rise in real estate would pay
the difference. The Of emigrants would
then halt on the road to the far west and take up
her lands. She then would have greater aIyanta-
ges than States further west. Those arts and
beauties OF cultivated society, which will ne! 1.-Two
in the plantation with the lash and chain would al
once be hers. Her increased security of life and
the better execution of the laws would be among
the readest results of the change. The railroads
which she now wants would come. The rise in
property in her cities alone, in the next ten years
would pay the entire expense of emancipation set
ting 1t down at the enormously high amount Of
Sl50OO0,000, or 500 for every slave This can
lie prove i'll the increase of the city property of tho
Free States. Leaving out the City of New York,
and taking the increase of our interior towns
during that period, such a result is shown Dos.
ton alone Increased 900 this last year as
just shown by the Assessors report and that ia
at the rate of Sl50000 in ten years. And
ought not, indeed, Louisville alone as the chief
port OF Free State, to increase fast as Bustpn2
Remember, Massachusetts has little else than free
dom and industry. Her soil is meager, ard she
has neither iron nor coal-those great indisrensa-
bles of civilization, and which, if State cannot
buy, she cannot proper without But Kentucky
has both of these Nature has done su much for
her that she should do more for herself If her
leading men will but examine the statistics of
Slavery and of Freedcm they will find that desc
lation, follows the one and civilization the other:
and that the only chance which she has to com
pete with her northern neighbors is to recur to tho
pure and noble aspirations of her most distinguish
ed son, when the fire and generosity Of youth
lit up his genius wit the love of emancipation NJ
Y. Tribune.