New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-06-02
Address 70 the People OF Kentucky-The
Approaching EIeciisn-The Qnesiisns
1t Issue-A Review or Recent Eveuss-
The CenstiiuiionaI Ainendment-The
Labor System.
FpAyKPoRr. XIV, May %, 1865.


Laber System.
FRANKFORT, Ky, May %, 1865.
At meeting Of the Union Executive Com
mittee held in Frankfort. KY. May % lso5 for the
purpose Of nominating candidate for State Treasurer
To be voted for on Monday, August 7, lroo IT war de
cided 10 form a committee Of from each Congress
sonal District not a member Of the Executive Com
mittee to confer with the Executive Committee in me
selection Of candidate Aer ail and Tree S0Daer
nominated the candidate OF tho Union party Tor the
office named
In presenting our candidate and platform TO the PEG
rle of Kentucky We deem hut few words necessary by
way Of explanation or appeal We make single issue
Which may be summed up In the sentence that the pest
interests OF Kentucky and Of the American Union de
mand the ratification o. tho Constitutional Amend
ment rhoshing Slavery throughout the United states
and forever prohibiting its renirodnction We rely
upon the wisdom OF people aud the Justice 81 our
for that success which We feel assured arts u
at the coming election.
The Institution Of Slavery cannot be said to exist
now. In this state or IN The United States ahI We
are called upon 10 recognize its nom our midst
rather than decree it, TIL. continuance Of Slavery IN
Kentucky is not possible. even II were expedient or
desirable and would be neither oIpedient nor desirable
even II IL were possible. without entering into any
argument M g. is moral right wrong II Is sale To
say that the of the past four years have ober
atcd it's substance and lit nothing bat its shadow
among they have taken away as To the iunIe All
the benefits we have derived from H. and lett us
all its evils.
The party that appeals you for support 10 not
ltc Tor the ucatn OF SlNfIl IL Nab hh'u
the house of It's friends IL was reserved for the South
.rn leaders Of the great Rebcllon-Dow happily ter
minated. thanks TO the vaor ana patriotism of the
Amercan peoplo-to provo themselves the great prac
teal Ahoionists Of the and 10 accomplish IN four
yeers ~ aggressive war result which half century
of nntngonism Of opinion between the ettrcisn
of the two sections could have achieved. The party
which came into power lh6, 50 far from signalling
it, advent by hostility 90 Slavery offered Cons,itu
iona guarantee for Its existence IN every Southern
State This scornfuy rejected AZ insufficient
and slavery put the garb II treason and arrayed H.
self against the General Government.
The gage of battle was thrown down by South Caro-
lima; tho war commenced anH was carried on by
President Ipcon and his advisers for the purpose 81
preserving the national integri'y-not ~ destroying
Slavery. IL was continued on this principle until. by
the determined resistance OF the southern Rebels II
made destroy Slavery In order 10 save
the Union, or TO destroy tie Union In order 20 save
Slayery-Slaycry and the Union could not both be pre-
served. The voice Of the loyal masses rose with one
accord In favor Of The Union audcgainst Slavery
President Lincoln accepted the Issue forced upon him
by the madness Of the Rebel lenders and thenceiorh
tie contest was to b. between Union aud Freedom on
The one hand, and Disruption and slavery on TIE
other. The result Is known The cause Of the Union
has riunphed and the side of the Rebellion. the
failure Of IL achievement has been added to the inam
81 is inception.
Slavery and the Union coud not both survive the terri
Die shock Of arms which then confused the Nation,
and unwilling that the people OF Kentucky who had
stood By the national cause should be compelled 10 SUI
fer equally with those who had plunged us into the
dreadful calamity Of civil war, submitted 10 US prop
osition for what was termed compensated emancipa'
ton This regret say, rejected by the Gen
era Assemby-atnough II was apparent then, as now,
that the Institution Of slavery abolished in extreme
South as necessity Of the could not exist long IN
Kan,ncEy snrrounded on all sides by Free States.
We mention this fact because there are those among
w sole objection To the adoption oil the Const
tional Amendment is the pecuDiary loss u would in
yolye And If there be any hope for compensation amer
the refusal Of our Legislature 10 adopt proposition
emanatng from the wisdom OF him whose los we were
Kindness O. heart and desire 10 restrict the burdens Of
the war M far possible 10 IN authors II surely con-
sst- in the immediate adoption Of Tho amendment; for
none can be 80 blind mo-, Ia perceive that measure
alike by the necessities md the Interests of the
country and the civilization Of the world is ratified by
the reauise number Of States while Kentucky dssents
We can hay but little hope for. and no claim whatever
TO- such compensation.
or The constiuiionality Of the proposed amendment
we do not deem IL necessary 10 say one word The |
language of the able opponents Of the measure in Con
gress and throughout the country might be quoted IL
il were necessary a. furnish proof OF the right of the
people 10 alter and amend fundamental law having no
force whatever except by virtue of its cmanaton from
people. Our fathers of the eighteenth century
iainy never assumed the right 10 bind their descend.
ants Of the nineteenth century by instrument which
as unaerable and immutablc On the contrary, they
prescribed the mode by which the Constitution could
be amended without making any restrictions "a TO the
subjects respecting which changes might be made III
Slavery exists by virtue Of the Constitution OF the
United States. the amendment Is Justified by that pow.
to destroy. which, with certain limitations is lnhe
rent in the power that creates II there Is iustca
ton for Slavery in the Constitution an amendment for.
ever prohibiting it, when ratified by three OF the
States provided in The instrument itself Is uuauos
tonahly of full force and effect.
AS To the effect Of emancipation In Kentucky no ar
gument can be 80 convincing the rapid Increase in
the value Of real estate in the State OF MARYLAND and
the District Of Columbia since the abolition of slavery
there. The value Of land In Maryland has enhanced
already to extent that more than for tho
pecunary value OF the slaves emancpated and In Tho
City Of Washington the increase In The value of real
estate and taxable property since the abolition of Sey
cry in the District o! Columbia has been UNPARALLELED
and Unprecedented Nor is this prosperity merely nm
parent and attributable to the inflated condon ~ tic
national currency as some are ready 10 charge. The
gold valuation OF the real property In the CITY of Wash
ington Is now more than fifty per cent-perhaps hnnJ
redereater than four years ago Such also win
be the effect IN Kentucky. ~
Nor Is anything to be feared from the temporary dis
tuIbance to the labor system Of our State which La
extinction OF slavery will effect The laws of labor
like the laws OF trade will regulate Themselves Tbo
freed slave must have bread and 10 get IL he mnst
work lie viii work where his labor IL most In demand
and best requed, and the of his labor 10 Ljs en-
poyers VIII be much less than 1t ever has been 10 his
owners; The examples Of the States of Indiana Ohio
ana Illinois: where negroes have long performed n
largo part Of the unskied gbor OF the civ and ~ ,h
country may DO cited in proof Of this Negroes have