Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1855-06-19
NR CARLYLE on SLAVERY.

W. hoor grea, deal OF complaint that Mr., Carlyle
!. ho,t;dca5-that his thoughts confused ana III
aoveinred rud expressed. We confess that we can
n,t ALWAYS fully comprehend the drift and scope OF ha
reasoning; but from what we have mastered. we De-
,in to suspect that it Is our obtuseness anu iot is
obscury, that is ri flu!t.
On the subject of existing social owls IN all
Western or troo Europe, Mr. Carlyle Thoroughly
and cordially coacurs with the Socialists The
Novelists, the Reviewers the PHILOSOPHERS OF
France and the Charsts OF England. lie secs, as
Mr.. Greeley, and Proudhon, and Owen, and Fourier
and Louis Blanc do, that free competition or Luis
soz fur, or universal liberty and political equaiy'
flor they synonymous, meaning precisely tue same
thug) arc tho OF all tho evils that aiilct Tree
society. He perceives, with them, that poll'icai
equality beges tho grossest and most ntoersoie So
cial inequalities. He concurs with them, that tho
rough destruction and reorganization OF the rot
tep crumbling tottering edhce OF ireo society
i, necessary; nav, that the old house is about
to fall aud that all the props, and patches and splicing
that Parliament can apply in way OF Poor LAWS una
prison discipline and ten hours work, can't save it
| from impending ruin. "R"H mote SNa:" he thinks
| that rs liberty and emancipation of Gurth and
Sambo produced the evil, return 10 slavery is the
| only euro for it. Give Gur and Sanbo masters,
and they will become useful men, instead of trouble
| some paupers.
Mr., Greeley, Brigham Young, Stephen rearlo An.
drews Proudhon and company, insist that little OF
the hair would the bite Put down law, religion,
church government, marriage, and separate property,
aud let anarchy" personal attraction, and "attrac-
live labor" rule, and all say they. will be right.
Among these sages there slight shades of differ
enco of opinion. Some, for instance, would permit
perpetual partnerships" instead Of perpetual iceh-
tiousnes in the intercourse Of the sexes. Boomers
would be allowed male partners instead OF husbands
Yst the prevalent theory s, that people would soon
become Sc good under the system OF society," that
all exclusive appropriation OF one man by ono wo-
man would soon become scpcrtuous
Now we believe that Iuore liberty would mako
Things worse instead Of better and that Sr Carlyle
is right aud Greeley, Owen, Fourier, and Lexis
Blanc, wrong. Democrats rs We are, we hold still the
old-ins!icred no.icn taught La by our mother, 'thn
man is prone 10 evil sEd that il you give Loose rens
to his passions and appetes, Ec sill lind plenty OF
ATTRACTIVE" mischief sin aid ideness, aGi very lit
Tia " attractive labor " We are poor benigEted
Southcrnsrs It j: true and This may be the reason why
wa prefer the dim Pickering rushlight OF Carlyle, to
such brilliant luuinaries ~ Horace Sebucbadnezzar
Greeley and philosopher Fourier. We venture how
ever to recommend the study of Carlyle 10 Southern
ers along with the Greek Philosophers Alter we
are sufficiently advanced, we will enter upon the
"Nvsteries of Purs," aud that scarce book the
eCommentares of Grseley on Fourier