Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-06-20

EMANCIPATION IN TILE DANISH WEST IN
DIEs.-The extract copied below is taken from
one of the fellow travellers of Theodore Par
ker in the West Indies, and shows the bright
side of the emancipation experiment there.
After giving an encouraging account of Mr..
Parkers health, and his ability to bear fatigue,
the writer proceeds as follows.
II often think how delighted you would be
with the results of emancipation as we see
them all around us, and have abundant oppor-
tunity to examine them; not, as with us, some
individuals, or Il family, set free, and earning
a hard subsistence under painful circum-
stances in an uncongenial climate but TWEEN
ty thousand people raised at once from the
condition of cattle to that of responsible be-
ings-protected land assisted, if need be) by
the Government; and all this in the tropical
climate suited to their nature, and in the very
houses where they once lived the miserable
life of slave. The pay sounds very low
which the Danish Government has fixed as
the settled remuneration for their voluntary
work but so few are their artificial wants,
and so easily and cheaply are all their neces-
sarieS obtained in this perpetual simmer, that
the thrifty and industrious already succeed in
laying up enough to put themselves forward
in the world, build a comfortable little
home in town, and bring up their chill
dren to trades. They do not like persons of
some nations, lie fiat down upon you, if you
lend them a helping hand. On the contrary,
they have great pride in being independent.
OF course, it is not all couieur de rose. The
profitable vice. for the masters gain, which
has always been encouraged among them, car
ries its poison among them yet, though they
are gradually acquiring pride of matrimony.
We are panied with hearing of the whipping
of children but what have they known Of
better means of correction? When | see a
coal-black woman sitting in the market, neatly
dressed, behind her tray of bread which she
has made. or of bananas her husband and chill
dren have raised, or of fowls which she has
reared, and of which she is to receive the price
for her tamily'S support, then my heart leaps
up with gratitude to the Father Of the black
and white, who has given such great deliver
ance to his people in this house OF bondage
There is noble young man here, an Epis-
copal minister, who is laboring most wisely,
unweariedly, and much at his own expense,
for the moral and intellectual elevation of the
colored people. Born in Tortola, educated in
Episcopacy, losing his patrimony by the
emancipation, he has risen above all this, and
almost unaided by the whites, who look coldly
upon his labors and his projects, he devotes
his energies and talents to this one cause-in-
stitutes schools and takes the charge of them,
establishes humane and improving societies
among the colored people, and is a constant
benetactor to them. The tears would have
been in your eyes this morning to see his Sum
day morning school for adults, many of whom
had walked five miles undee this scorching
sun to attend He has established a day school
for the children of his parish and l was never
SO pleased with any school have ever visited.
He thinks the blacks capable of receiving as
much instruction as the whites, judging from
the two years Of trial in this school. The pro-
gress has been surprising, indeed. And yet,
for teachers he has only two men-one Grip
pied of hand by rheumatism, the other blind
from infancy. The government will not aid
him, he not being Lutheran ami his own purse
has to supply most Of the expenses"