The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-12-07

uoV' mdgouln submitted u Bplrlteu message
to the Kentucky Legislature on Monday. The
State, he says, is in iourishing condition.
FINANCES OF THE sTArE.
The taxable property of the State is valued
at $493, ,409,3 1888. The balance of money in the
treasury is $13e, ,463, of which the School Fund
forms only the small portion of $57l. The
debt of the State amounts to near five and
a-half millions, and an annual interest has to
be raised Of $275,421. The Sinking Fund has
on hand $758,2S3. Actual value of Internal
Improvements, $l,0OO,OOO; Bank Stock, ST.
s7O,500, and 100000 Of Railroad Stock-all
owned by the State.
BANKS.
The Governor remarks upon tho prOpriety
of confning the issues Of Banks to the
amount of coin on hand, to the use of an undue
portion of their means In the purchase Of bills
of exchange. He says they have banks
enough and too many; let us have no more.
To take fresh start 1t would be bad policy to
have any banks, that it would have been better
for Kentucky If there had never been ono in
the State; but, having them, protect those in
existence and charter no more.
CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.
Recommendations are made to mako appro-
prations of $1,000 to tho Deaf and Dumb
Asylum at Danvills. There are forty-two
patients in the Institution for the Blind.
There are four hundred and twenty-one in
mates Of the two Lunatic Asylums.
MARRIAGE OF COUSINS.
The Governor recommends that marriages Of
Of cousins be declared illegal, as their progeny
become mutes, insane, blind or imbecile, to the
extent of one fifth Of the patients in charge Of
that State, thus lessening the number of useful
citizens and entailing heavy expense on the
State.
The Governor declares tho sentiment of tho
State to bo averse to the reopening Of the
African Slave Trade, and recommends the
completion of tho geological survey of the
State. Some boundary disputes have 10 be
adjusted with Tennessee; also with Missouri in
reference to Wolf Island in the Mississippi,
some 20 miles below the mouth of the Ohio.
| SLAVERY DECLARED A BLESSING ANTI SLAVERY
FANATICIsM DENOUNCED.
Governor Magofin denouncos the Harper's
Ferry outrage, and the sympathy Of anti
slavery fanatics as directly hostile to the longer
continuance of the Union, which Kentucky is
determined to adhere TO. ITS very strength
| consists in its securing antagonistic interests.
Its power is in its apparent forces. He pro-
ceeds with drectneHs to q definition of his
position, which is in favor Of the slave relation.
SLAVERY NO WRONG.
He says, al do not believe slavery to be
wrong. l do not believe it 10 be q moral,
social, or political evil" lie claims that the
patriot eages of the revolution did no wrong to
humanity in embodying 1t in the Constitution;
| they but followed the customs, the laws, and
tho example Of the whole civilized world.
Abraham introduced slavery into his system
of government. Moses found 1t q part of the
Jewish polity; undenounced by the Savior and
the Apostles, it came regularly down to us,
through all the various changes in society and
government. Europeans brought the slaves
here asproperty, as merchandise, and 1t was an
existing Institution here when the Colonies re-
Boiled. 1t Is now one of the compaots of the
Constitution. For kentucky, he denounoes
tho proclamation "that the United States
Government cannot exist as part free and part
slave, but must DO all one or the other"
Kentucky has seven hundred miles Of exposed
| territory, and suffers an annual loss of her
slave property of 100000, will be without
| excitement, and offers no threats, bat will act
with the dignity, moderation and wisdom
which becomes her. Under the broad shield
Of the Constitution, she will stand by the
Union. She stands by the landmarks of the
Of, and regulate It's own domestic institutions
without Interference. She believed that
slavery Is neither moral, social nor political
evil. The whites In slave states are as agree
able, as refined, as hospitable, as charitable,
as brave in battle, as obedient to the laws, as
loyal to the government as the people in the
free States.
THE SLAVE AND FREE NEGRO CoNTRAsTED.
| The African has been elevated by slavery:
A century ago he was brought here from At
rica a crooked, q miserable, naked, starved,
ill-shaped, chattering, half-reasonipg sort Of
| link between the baboon and the white man,
as wild nearly as the beasts Of the forest, and
never was there such change for the better
produced within the same length Of time upon
any people on earth. We, now behold him in
the third generation 6nsly formed, straight,
intelligent, moral, even contentod If left to the
management Of his master, and probably hap.
pier than he, as % slave, an active, intelligent
happy agent in doing good; but the moment
you set him free, he deScends in the scale OF
! civilization far more rapidly than he ascended,
and as such becomes worthless, idle, lazy
besotted vagabond IN very few years, SO
much so, that some Of tho Free States, where
there appears to be so much sympathy for him,
have passed strong laws TO prevent his becom-
ing resident.
THE TENDENCY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AL
| LEGGED TO BE DANGEROUS.
The Governor tells the Free States that they
can have no encouragement from Kentucky
for the abolition Of slavery. lie declares that
in spite of the conservative portion Of the
Republican party, there is no denying thai
their principles lead to such results as have
recently occurred at Harper's Ferry, and thai
party must be hold responsible. As an excuse
for taking at once sturdy, common position
Of self preservation, he urges, the apprehen'
sion Of a,,common danger "Our slave property
is threatened, our homes are threatened, oui
lives, and the lives Of our wives and children
are threatened; all tho Slave States are threat
ened; the Constitution and the Union are
threatened; common sense and prudence teach
US that we must adopt efficient measures o.
protection.
MEASURES OF PROTECTION FOR HOME SECURITY
The Governor recommends renewed vigilance
in Kentucky, j, and recommends protective meas
ures of security and safety, "whether the agents
and cmissiaries of the Republican party, ant
the enemies of the Union, come among US al
teachers, as peddlers, or as free negroes, from
the free States. I would, therefore, recon
mend heavier taxation upon peddlers, re
peal Of the law imposing heavy penalty
upon them for coming to the State under any
pretense whatever. I further recommend q
change of the laws allowing slaves 10 hire
their own time, and the passage Of much more
stringent laws to correct this alarming
evil. 1t would be we'll, too, to offer to eaof
FREQ negro, who wished to leave the State
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