Carlyle on West India Emancipation [pp. 527-538]

WEST INDIA EMANCIPATION.
The number of whites under ten is one-third. Thiiose under 16 years,
as compared with those over that age, have diminished.
In the same period, New York has taken the lead by far, and is
greater, by one-third, than either Virginia or Pennsylvania. Ohio has
become the fifth State, and shoots ahead of Massachusetts, as also does
Kentucky. Alabama and Arkansas are introduced.
[To be continued.]
ARPT. II1.-CARLYLE ON WEST INDIA EMANCIPATION.
WIIAT IIAVE TILE WEST INDIA NEGROES GAINED BY EMANCIPATION, AND WIIhAT HAS
I TIIE WORLD GAINED BY TILE EFFORTS OF EXETER HALL PIHILANTIIROPISTS
[THE following paper appeared in a late number of Frazer's London Magazine. The style and
manner are plainly those of Thomas Carlyle, to whom it is attributed. It is a piece of pungent
satire, upon the whole body of pseudo philanthropists, who, within the last few years, have been
a curse to our own country, as well as to England. The Wesct India ques /ion is, for thefirst time,
put in its true light before the English people, and it -,Vill much surprise us if a reaction, in favor
of common sense, is not the result. The reader will not allow the quaint style, and the odd conceits of MIr. Carlyle, toprevent him from giving an attentive perusal to the matter. We are sure
that he will agree with us, that the case of Quashee is disposed of with a master hand, and left
in its nakedness, without a single prop or support. When British writers can so speak, it is time
for Northern fanaticism to pause and reflect.-ED.]
THE following occasional discourse, delivered by we know not whom,
and of date seemingly above a year back, may, perhaps, be welcome to
here and there a speculative reader. It comes to us-no speaker
named, no time or place assigned, no commentary of any sort givenin the hand-writing of the so-called "Doctor," properly "Absconded
Reporter," Dr. Phelin iI'Quirk, whose singular powers of reporting,
and also whose debts, extravagances, and sorrowful insidious financeoperations, now winded up by a sudden disappearance, to the grief of
many poor trades-people, are making too much noise in the police offices
at present! Of M'Quirk's composition, we by no means suppose it
to be; but from M'Quirk, as the last traceable source, it comes to us;
offered, in fact, by his respectable, unfortunate landlady, desirous to
make up part of her losses in this way.
To absconded reporters, who bilk their lodgings, we have, of course,
no account to give; but if the speaker be of any eminence or substan tiality, and feel himself aggrieved by the transaction, let him under stand that such, and such only, is our connection with him or his af fairs. As the colonial and negro question is still alive, and likely to
grow livelier for some time, we have accepted the article, at a cheap
market rate; and give it publicity, without, in the least, committing
ourselves to the strange doctrines and notions shadowed forth in it.
Doctrines and notions which, we rather suspect, are pretty much in a
,ininority of one," in the present era of the world. Here, sure enough,
are peculiar views of the rights of negroes; involving, it is probable,
peculiar ditto of innumerable other rights, duties, expectations, wrongs
and disappointments, much argued of, by logic and by grape-shot, in
these emancipated epochs of the human mind. Silence now, however,
and let the speaker himself enter:
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