The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-09-05
THE DISPATCH.
SATURDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 5, ~
predtctions FULFILLED.

Fre0hCNl0mA
The movements OF France, cautiously followed ny
England for the Introduction Of African iabor into
the West India Islands, 10 a fuiflment, somewhat
sooner than we expected, Of predictions made BY
Thomas CARLYLE not ten years ago. There IL no
he,p for Il. The diseased philanthropy of Exeter
Hall IL bound to give way before the sober and
practical sense Of the strong minded British ma
ton. OF course, II cannot turn direct, palpable
somerset Il has too long ranted against slavery
to become It's advocate or even its exteuustor for
some years, but It Is compelled to have the thing,
under the name OF apprenticeship, and, after =
WHILE II will honestly drop the name.
The state of the case as described by Mr. Carlyle
ten years ago, is nearly realized at this mo-
ment. The West Indies are short Of labor; the sable
inhabitant, by working half an hour day, can sup
ply himself by aid of sun aud soil, with as nach
pumpkin as will suffice him. II is = little dihchH
10 make this pumpkin-fed African Work mort
than the half hour necessary to OBTAIN Pu"PA,
Mr. CARLYLE Justly thinks that supply ana aoh'"""'
which. science says, should be brought 10 pear ."
him have An uphill task Of 1t with such biah.-
.S,ra,, am supplies itself gratis; rich soil, in
,I,o.. unpeopled or halfpeopled regions, almost
its. these are his supply; and half an hour
g. directed upon these will produce pumpkin,
,,,',cb il his demand The unfortunate black
man. very swiftly does he settle his account with
snppIy and demand; not so swiftly the less fortu-
nate white man of these tropical localities. lie
himself cannot work; aud his black neighbor, rich
In pumpkin, is In no haste to help him. Sunk to
the ears In pumpkin, imbibing saccharine juices
and much at his in the creation, he can listen
"a ,he less fortunate white mans demand, anu
take his own time In supplying it. Higher wages
massa; higher, for your canecrop cannot wait
stiIi higher-tlI no conceivable opuience Oh eahe
crop will cover such wages! In Demarara' u"
read In the blue book of last year. the eane-crop'
far and wide, stands rotting; the fortunate black
gentlemen, strong In their pumpkins, nave al
strpck till the demand rise little. Sweet,
blighted lilies now getting up their heads again.
The honest Englishman. and quaint and forcibie
writer then goes on to say that II was not qua
shss, that made those West India Islands what
they are, or can by any hypothesis DO considered
Ia have the right Of growing pumpkins there. For
countless ages till the white European first saw
them they produced only swamps, snakes and
saysr.s-not till then their sugar, coffee, cin-
namou. pspper. called into existence. "Quashee"
know. himself quoth Mr.. Carlyle, that had he, by
A miraculous charm, been waited to the West In
dies the natives would have eaten him, rolling him
as fat morsel under their tongues; that never, by
art Of his, could one pumpkin have grown there
to solace any human throat; that these plentiful
pumpkins are not his.
sIf oaushee will not honestly aid in bringing out
those sugars, cinnainons, and nobler products of
the West India Islands for the benefit of all man
kind then, say, neither will the powers permit
Quashee to continue growing punkins there for his
own lazy benefit; but will sheer him out, by and ny,
like a lazy gourd overshadowing rich ground; him
and all that partake with hm-perhaps in \ very
terrible msnner, l apprehend, for soft sawder or
phisnthropc stump-oratory now or henceforth.-
No the gods wish besides pumpkin, that spices
and valuable products be grown In their West In
dies: thus much they have declared In so making
the West 1ndies-infnitey more they with, that
manful. Industrious men occupy their West Indies.
not inioent twolegged cattle, however happy
over their abundant pumpkins. Both these things.
we may be assured, the immortal gods have decided
upon, passed their Eternal Act Of Parliament for;
and both Of them though all terrestrial Parliaments
and entities oppose it to the DEATH shall be DONE
Quasss, if he avH not help bringing out the spices,
acH get himself made Stare again, (iCich state tcW
be little less ugly than his present one and ruth
beHsfcent icip since other methods drdtt not riH he
compelled 10 fcOr. Or, alas, let him look across 10
Hayti, and trace far Steiner prophecy Let him,
by his uglness idleness rebellion Danish all white
men from the West IDdies, and make it all one
Hayti-wth.litt or no sugar growing, black Peter
DISCRIMINATING black Paul, and, where a garden of
the Hespcrides might be- nothing but a tropical
dog kennel and pestiferous jungle-does he think
that will forever continue pleasant to gods aud
men, l See men, the rose pink cant all peeled
away from them, land day those black
coasts: men sent by the laws of this universe and
the inexorable course of things; men hungry for
gold. remorseless, fierce as old buccaneers were:
and a doom for Quashee which ] had rather not
contemplated The gods are long-suifering; but the
law from the beginning was-IIe that will not
work shall perish from the earth, and the patience
OF the gods has limits"
Here is the prediction. The substantial fulfil
ment thereof we beginning to witness. The
apprenticeship system is the pioneer Of the estab
Iishment of West India slavery, aud more sell
fish, cruel and relentless slavery than the world
has witnessed since the downfall of Paganism. The
French and English proverbialy the hardest
and most mercess masters in the world, which
was one cause of the repeated and terrible insur
rections that occurred among their serfs.