New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-17
TuR WRIST INDIAN BLACK MAN.

The ProSayery journals, with The Constitution
at their head, still refuse to be comfoted because
the free colored people Of the North and the Abo-
Itiopists have chosen to remember that the LIST OF
August is the anniversary of the Day Of Jubilee in
the British West Indies, and have celebrated it &C
cordiogly Our unhappy friends have reason.
The historical fact that powerful government was
reluctantly compelled by humane public opinion
to emaDcipste eight hundred thousand chattel
slaves, and to pay 10 their owners one hundred
millions of dollars il one which an oliguchy OF
three hundred thousand men, owning four millions
of slaves in republic Of thirty millions Of people
may naturally enough wish should be forgotten.
As il has been, however, annually remembered and
obstinaely reoiced over for quarter Of century,
and as the disposition Of these impudent black and
f.nntieal white people to continue to remember
and to continue to rejoice il is evidently in-
corrigbe, our Pro.slavery friends are put to their
wits.eDds to know how to cOmport themselves
under such aggravating circumstances Hitherto
they have thought themselves masters OF the situa-
ton. At first they were silent; then contemptu-
Gus; then abusive; till at length, gone a.
most mad with rage and fear, they are
driven from their mastery inactivity and
their more mastery vituperstion, and have
rushed to argument and statistics They could give
no stronger evidence Of their weakness and their
desperation. 1t is here precisely where these ju-
bilant and contumacious jewellers of the LIST OF Au-
gust, these revlers Of patriarchal institutions, are
most glad to meet them. There is not "sable
orator" of them All who would not send even tho
editor of The Constitution himself bowling from
the PLATFORM so bespattered with figures, so bruised
with arguments, 80 overwhelmed with logic, 80
buried in trope and metaphor so crushed with
facts and 60 annihilated with Parliamentary dOcu-
ments, that bis best friends would not know him.
If he and his coadjutors will take our advice
they will, il they needs must let their
tongues loose. deny that arithmetic has anything
70 do with the matter, and hold steadily to the
asrerton, capable Of 50 many forms Of expression,
that he who doubts Shareholders assertion of the
failure of West Indian Emancipation is incapable
Of reasoning, and beyond the pale of argument
But the wisest course Of all il to say nothing;
such silence is golden and full Of wisdOm. For
even TO the assertion of failure there are answers
which it 10 wise not to provoke.
Whether Emancipation failed or not must depend
altogether upon what Was is purpose. II the In
tenton was to extract mOOnshine from cucum-
bers 70 solve the qundrsture Of the circle to wash
blackamoon white, 10 add cubit BY thought, to
the mental moral, or physical stature Of any human
| creature, or 10 do anything else contrary to oil
reason and experience, then it certainly "" fail
sir nntU n n
emancipation Of 200 900 slaves it was emnently
| success, a. those 100000 blacks are slaves no
longer. Whatever else may have been the conse-
ouepce they a. has been often remarked, are free;
free from the whip free from outrage free from COM
pusoiy work for nothing free from gradual extinc-
ton free iftkey choose instead ofaboring for white
men for no wages and scant food, to sink them
selves TO the ears in pumpkins, and imbloe saeha-
rbe Juices, which Mr. Carlyle thinks is held to DO
the chief end Of Cuffee. Here, for instance, is
pregnant evidence Of their freedom OF this sort.
! In the four "crown colonies, where punishments
were registered, there were in the two years
lsos9. sixtyeight thousand, nine hundred and
twenty one castigations of naked men and women
with cartwhip or other sufficient instrument Of
| torture. The aw-more humane than our repub-
Ican stAtute-made twenty-five stripes the limit Of
legal thrashiDg. Let US suppose negro-driven
more merciul even than the law, and that the aver.
age logging was only twenty cuts Of the lash and
then we have an aggregate of one million, three
hundred and Fifty thousand blows inflicted upon tho
naked bscks Of the negroes Of those four colonies
in two years, hLf million of which were actually
retur6ed a. having been given to women. Itisquits
certain that in the other colonies where no register
was required, this disciplinary application Of the