The North-Carolinian., 1859-09-10
Effect Of Emancipation on the African
Race.

Effect of Emancipation on the African
Race.
We find the following extract taken from
the London Times, in the Southern Field and
Fireside
"There is no blinking the truth. Years of
bitter experience-years of hope deferred, of
selfdevotion unrequited. of property, of humilia-
ton, of prayers unanswered, of sufferiDgs de-
rided of insults unresented Of contumely pa-s
tientiy endured-have convinced us Of the
truth. 1t must be spoken out, loudly and
energetically, despite the wild mocking of howl
ing cant. The freed West India negro slave
will not till the soil for9wages the free Of the
ex-slave is as obstinate as his SIRE. He will
not cultivate lands which he haue not brought
for his yams, mangoes and planta tions.
These satisfy his wants he does net care for
yours. Cotton, and sugar, and coffee, and to-
bacco-he cares little for them. And what
matters it to him that the Englishman has
mills, machinery and plant, which now totter
| on the langnishing estate that for years has
only returned beggary and debts.-He eats his
yams and singers at Buckra.,
"We know not why this should be but it
is so. The negro has been bought with price
the price of English taxation and English
toll He has been redeemed from bondage
by the sweat and travail of some millions of
hard-working Englishmen. Twenty millions of
Eounds sterling-one hundred millions of dol
lars-have been distilled from the brains and
muscles of the free English !aborer, of every
decree, to fashion the West Indian negro into
a free and ndepedent laborer.' Free and in-
dependent enough he has become, God knows;
but laborer he is not and, SO far as we can
see, never will be. He will sing hymns and
quote texts but honest, steady industry he
not only detest but depises. We wish to
Heavens that some people in England-neither
government people, nor parsons, nor clergymen
| but some just-minded, honest-hearted and
clear-sig gGted men, would go out to some of the
island-say Jamaica, Dominica or Antique
not for month or three months, but for year
would watch the precious prOtege of English
philanthropy, the freed negro in his daily
habits would watch him he lazily plants
his little squatting would see him as be proud
ly rejects agricultural or domestic service, or
accepts it only at wages ludicrOusly dispopor-
tionate to the value of his work. We wish.
| too, they would watch him while, with hide
to which fervid heat is a comfort rather than
an annoyance, be dronimgy lounges over the
prescribed task on which| the intrepid English
man, uninured to the burning sun, consumes
his impatient energy and too often sacrifices
his life We wish they would go out and view
the negro in all the blazonry of his idleness
his PRIDE his ingratitude, contemptuously sneer-
ing a: the industry of that race which made
him free, and then come home and teach the
memorable lesson of their experiences to the
fanatics ia !, who have perverted him into what he
We rejoice to see the London Times, teach
ing wholesome truths oh the subject of free
negro labor in the right quarter Another
| step in the same direction, and public opinion
will be all right in England.
| off from the sun, that our globe has con-
| fessedly travelled already one hundred millions
| of miles from its birth place, and no absurdity
exists in the supposition that it has not yet
ceased receding, though at constantly dimn-
| ishing rate, which may or may not reach the
point before it arrives at such distance to
be uninhabitabe; when following the analogy
of all other known perturbations and ecentrici-
| ties among the different bodies of the universe.
! it will undoubtedly retrace its steps to point
| much nearer than any it has occupied during
the historic period, and so move back and forth,
like mighty pendulum forever, measuring off
perhaps thousands of ages at each heat. Or
perchance having run its course 1T will ia IL back
into the sun-as man, who springs from the
in the form of nebulous matter and again con-
densed into a habitable globe.-Noa0dwrgport
Herald.
| DESTRUCTION OF A Cry EARTHQUAKE.
The English papers received by the Etna
nounce the entire obstruction of the ancient
city of Erzroom, in Turkey, by repeated shocks
of earthquake within the last three months.
The first earthquake occurred June 1st, and a
letter from one of the missionaries of the Amer
ican board gives vivid description of the first
great shock. He says
''The first shock, which was not very severe
was felt about o'clock A Nj, June lst and at
10 o'clock "A M, the following day came the