{"newspaper_name": "The Arkansas banner.", "edition": "01", "page": "p4", "byline": ""}
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KENTUCKY AND SLAYERY.-Gov. Metcalc. of Ky, has written 10 friend an able letter on the subject of slavery in Kentucky, which has been published in the Frankfort Common wealth. It was elicited by charge of some Louisville paper, declaring that in some of his speeches during the recent Presidential canvass he had avowed himself an Abolition ist. After denying this in very explicit terms, and giving sketch of his habitual represen- tations upon this subject, he proceeds to sav that he differs widely from those who think Kentucky will soon become a non-slave- holding Slate. He thinks 1t certain that inc white portion of the laboring population of the State, will never consent to associate with the freed blacks and declares tliat he Is forti- fled in that belief by a long and intimate ac- quantance with their feelings on the subject. He therefore assumes that emancipation will never take place, except on condition of the removal of the blacks and against such a condition he thinks both the free States and the others would protest Gcv. Metcalle avows his conviction that the whites are less pros porous and happy where slavery exists, than where It does not, provided there are few or none of the freed blacks in their midst. Both races, he thinks. are more happy a the reIa- ton of master and servant, than otherwise where there are so many blacks.

 The slow progress of Colonization he thinks upon the whole, the only plan within our power of meliorating the condition of slavery, not only in Kentucky but through out the United States. The vagaries of Abo- lltonism he says are soon destined fo mass away. ..We may theorise, phiosophise, req son, and urge the precepts of relig zion; but we can effect nothing useful, nothing benef- oial 10 the black, for the simple reason that his condition in this country Is better far better, under the guardianship and protection of a master, than il would be when libefaled.r The negro, like the Indian. can never be raised lo an equality with the whites. and SD long as whites have the power, whatever may be theirtheories. Gov Meicalf savs. ~,hcir practice has ever been, and ever will be. to hold other races as interiors"