he who looks upon labor as only fit for a servile race, it is him and his kindred spirits who live upon the labor of others, endeavoring to reduce the white laborer to the condition of the slave.  They do not yet claim him as property, but they would exclude him from all participation in the public affairs of the country.  It is further said, that if the negroes were free, the black would rival the white laborer in the free States.  I cannot believe it, while so many facts exist to prove the contrary.  Negroes, like the white race, but with stronger feelings, are attached to the place of their birth, and the home of their youth; and the climate of the South is congenial to their natures, more than that of the North.  If emancipation should take place at the South—­and the negro be freed from the fear of being made merchandize, they would remove from the free States of the North and West, immediately return to that country, because it is the home of their friends and fathers.  Already in Ohio, as far as my knowledge extends, has free white labor, (emigrants,) from foreign countries, engrossed almost entirely all situations in which male or female labor is found.  But, sir, this plea of necessity and convenience is the plea of tyrants.  Has not the free black person the same right to the use of his hands as the white person:  the same right to contract and labor for what price he pleases?  Would the gentleman extend the power of the government to the regulation of the productive industry of the country?  This was his former theory, but put down effectually by the public voice.  Taking advantage of the prejudice against labor, the attempt is now being made to begin this same system, by first operating on the poor black laborer.  For shame! let us cease from attempts of this kind.

The Senator informs us that the question was asked fifty years ago that is now asked, Can the negro be continued forever in bondage?  Yes; and it will continue to be asked, in still louder and louder tones.  But, says the Senator, we are yet a prosperous and happy nation.  Pray, sir, in what part of your country do you find this prosperity and happiness?  In the slave States?  No! no!  There all is weakness gloom, and despair; while, in the free States, all is light, business, and activity.  What has created the astonishing difference between the gentleman’s State and mine—­between Kentucky and Ohio?  Slavery, the withering curse of slavery, is upon Kentucky, while Ohio is free.  Kentucky, the garden of the West, almost the land of promise, possessing all the natural advantages, and more than is possessed by Ohio, is vastly behind in population and wealth.  Sir, I can see from the windows of my upper chamber, in the city of Cincinnati, lands in Kentucky, which, I am told, can be purchased from ten to fifty dollars per acre; while lands of the same quality, under the same improvements, and the same distance from me in Ohio, would probably sell from one to five hundred