New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-25
KENTICKY.

Perhaps the most interesting incident in Henry
Claws life is his early eror! to procure emanclpa'
ton in his adopted State Kentucky. Had he
remained simply State politician, let alone the
Presidency and all its disappon ments and levers,
and devoted himself exclusively to the work Of
Kidding Kentucky of the cancer Of Slavery, he
would have left behind him fame whose endur-
ance would be beyond the qualifications of the
long centuries to come, which are terrible cruel
bles to test the regulations of men, most in
the mouths of the strong political parties
of their own day and generation. But Ken
lucky remains yet enslaved. Her fret
city, Lexington, whose name recalls the very
essence of liberty, looks down upon men and wo-
men bought and sold as brute-beasts and is living
example of the inconsistencies of human nature,
which can talk one way and act another and i'm
sgne the while that such hypocrisy is not patent
TO the general gaze and will not find its due place
in the annals OF the race.
Kentucky began the political race before Ohio
Long prior TO the erection OF the first ogcabn on the
north of the Ohio River the hunters of Kentucky
had laid the cornerstone of their civic edi6ce.
Blessed with every innate advantage of climate,
soil, agricultural product and means Of manufac-
turing industry, Kentucky is yet so much behind
Ohio that the question arises as TO the cause of
such nferority, and the answer irresistibly comes
that it must be due to Slayery-to that system
which takes half the worth of man away, and re-
pels BY laws as certain as gravtation the advances
of civilized and ingenious from all parts Of the
world.
Kentucky is, in fact, one of the largest and
best situated States in the Union; and We really
believe second TO none in natural gifts. Never.
theless her population is but 76l il3 whites, and
10 OIL free negroes, or residents free to quit the
S.ate-the slaves being 2l0,9Sl. Ohio, how
ever, shows population of 1855, 05O-proving
how she has the start of her slave.ridden neigh
bors, and promising more trenchsnt disparity
in future years. Kentucky ought to be shout
900. 600 in the same ratio of incresse-her age
and natural advantages considered. The white
population of Kentucky it must also be rsmem.
bered, is largely placed on the borders of the
Ohio, originally attracted thi.her by and sub
iect to the wealth and influences Of its neighbors
of the free Sistes. For e1smple-.he towns of
Newport and Coyington owe their existence to
the fact that they are the suburbs of Cincinnati;
aud Louisville is required for the uses of CON-
merce BY the region north as well as south If
we subtract or qualify the numbers Of these
places, within the genial range Of higher pros
perity than Slavery, pure and simple, affords.
We shall largely dimini,h the white population
of Kentucky, and subtract in still greater
ratio from her intelligence and power.
OF al the Southern States, we take it that
none would find abolition so easy az Kentucky,
if che would only really set about the work.
Tie discussion Of the subject Of emancipation,
owing chiefly to the courage and constancy of
M C. n Clay, has been kept alive within her
borders: cor h,, ara sv.r hai solemn fanatic