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er live in peace, harmony and equnliiy with the residue of the population. The color, passions and prejudices would forever prevent the two races from living together in a stale of cordial union. Social, moral and political degradation would be the inevitable lot of the colored race. Even in the free States (I use the terms free and slave Stales not in any sense derogatory from one class, or implying any superiority in the other, but for the sake of brevity) that is their present condition. In some of those free States the penal legislation against the people of color is quite as severe, if not harsher, than it is in some of the slave Slates. As no where in the U. States are amalgamation and equality between the two races possible, it is better that there should be a separation, and that the African descendants should be returned to the native land of their fathers.It will have been seen that the plan 1 have suggested proposes the annual transportation of all born after a specified day, upon the arrival at the prescribed age, 10 the Colony which may be selected for their destination, and that this process of transportation is to be continued until the separation of the two races is completed. If the emancipated slaves were to remain in Kentucky, until they attained the age of twenty-eight, it would be about thirty-four years before the first annual transportation began, if the system commence in 1855, and about thirtv-nineexposed condition, affording great facilities to the escape of her slaves into the free States and into Canada. She does not enjoy the security which some of the slave Slates have, by being covered in depth by two or three slave Stales, intervening between them and free States.— She has a greater length of border on free States than any other slave State in the Union. That border is the Ohio river, extending from the mouth of Big Sandy to the mouth of the Ohio, a distance of near six hundred miles, separating her from the already powerful andgrowing States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Vast numbers of slaves have fled Irom most of the counties in Kentucky, from the mouth of Big Sandy to the mouth of the Miami, and the evil has in-! creased and is increasing. Attempts to recover the fugitives lead to the most painful and irritating collisions. Hitherto countenance and assistance to the fugitives have been chiefly afforded by persons in the Stale of Ohio ; but it is to be apprehended, from the progressive opposition to slavery, that, in process of lime, similar facilities to the escape of slaves will be found in the States of Indiana and Illinois. By means of railroads, Canada can be reached from Cin-_ cinnati in a little more than twenty-four hours.In the event of a civil war breaking out, or in the more direful event of a dissolution ot the Union, in consequence ofwere old enough to be apprenticed out: but as it is probable that they would be most generally bound to him, he would receive some indemnity from their services, until they attained their majority.Most of the evils, losses and misfortunes of human life have some compensation or alleviation. The slave-holder is generally a land-holder, and I am, persuaded that he would find, in the augmented value of his land, some, if not full indemnity for losses arising to him from emancipation and colonization.— Me would also liberally share in the general benefits, accruing to the whole State, from the extinction of slavery. These have been so often and so fully slated, that I will not, nor is it necessary to dwell upon them extensively. They may be summed up in a few words.— YVc shall remove from among us the contaminating influences of a servile and degraded race of different color ; we shall enjoy the proud and conscioussatisfuciion of placing that race where they can enjoy the great blessings of liberty, and civil, political and social equality ; we shall acquire the advantage of the diligence, the fidelity and the constancy of free labor, instead of the carelessness, the infidelity and the unsteadiness of slave labor; we shall elevate the character of white labor, and elevate the social condition of the white laborer; augment the value of our lands, improve the agriculture of the State, attract capital fromprobably die.Mar riling in Haste.—The hurry to sunder the bands of matrimony is so great that the chancery docket of the Common Pleas of Hamilton County, Ohio, is mainly made up of this business. Twenty couples were unyoked last week, and about a hundred are awaiting their turn.Emigration from Ireland.—A letter in the Journal of Commerce, dated at London on the Stb ultimo, says: The average number of emigrants arriving*} daily in Dublin, from various parts of Ireland, and selling out from the port of Liverpool on their way to the United States, is estimated at from 1,500 to 2.000, They all take out with them feather beds, articles of furniture, and some small capital.Southern Frost.— A heavy spell of frosty weather, in Florida lately, destroyed all the early garden vegetation, together with a great number of fruit trees.— Among the latter were four thousand young orange trees, comprising an entire plantation.Inauguration day was celebrated in New York by a salute of one hundred , guns from the Battery.Religious Liberty.—The Protestants of Syria have had free toleration and full civil rights extended to them.
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Adams Sentinel
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Mar 19, 1849
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