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f thousands of slaves in a few mouths.--The slaves cultivate the soil; when they are gone the land must be sold; and the prodigious amount of real property thrown on the market must necessarily produce depreciation in its value. With it will come complete stagnation of business, cessation of enterprise, universal poverty, and decay of all prosperity. To save their slaves they must ruin their own families in common with all those who depend upon the general wealth, and bury themselves like Sampson in the ruin which they will tumble on the heads of the Philistines." The Examiner then proceeds to show that there is no reason for the apprehension of Virginia's remaining under Abolition sway, which is producing consequences already so serious, and menaces such a translocation of capital, and with it must produce such a tremendous crash of fortunes, such ruin of the rich, such misery of the poor, that it is the duty of every citizen who values his own security to give attention to t