Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-02-07
GIT. |'.i. From the Y. Independent
Results OF Emancipation.
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"PITr [says'Carlyle] that nation cannot re
form Itself, es the English are trying to do, BY
what their newspapers call tremendous cheers.
A las il cannot be done. Reform is not joy
ous, but grievOus no single man can reform
himself without stern suffering and stern work.
ing /; how much less can nntiOn of men
The serpent sheds not is old skin without rus
~ disconsoateness /; he is not happy, but mis-
erable. In the Water Cure itself, do you no.
sit stepped for months washed to the bear
III elemental drenchings and, like job, arr
made to curse your day Reforming of ma
tion is terrible business Thus, too Medea
when she made tneh yonhr again, was wont tC
bew them in pieces with rheat-Hxrs cast then
into caldrons and boil them for length o
time. How much handler eould they bu
have done it by 'tremenduds cheers, alone r.
To the hasty glance, there Is q positive
contradiction between the two Divine as
surances-"Ye cannot serve God and
Mammon"-and Seek first the kingdom
of God and His righteousness, aud all
things shall be added unto you" Pro
fouudly scrutinized, they are but the oppo-
site halves Of Que great, harmonious truth
'Horesty,' 1t has been well said; lis truly
the best policy but only the honest can
perceive and realize the fact. Tie that re.
solves to be honest only because that is The
best policy, is very likely to miss the sue.
cess he aims at, and 10 look back with re-
gret on opportunities to Zurich or aggran.
die himself which he lost by not frankly
appearing in his true character of scoun.
drel H- 100 -aH
That negro slaves IT freed, wouId fall
at once TO cutting their ex masters throats
that they would utterly refuse to labor
---wonId return forthwith 10 the worship of
fetiches and the practice of every bloody
brutaIily-that fire, robbery, rape, muir.
der, and every form of outrage, would
speedily desastate and ruin the doomed
Colonies-such we're the rneful and san.
guine predictions Of the champions of SIav-
cry throughout the memorable agitation
that preceded the trd1ph of Emancipa.
tion in the BrtiAh West Indies. A quar-
ter Of centurys experience has consigned
oil these dolorons prophecies to the nioleS
aud The hats. The West Indies have been
all but left to themselves for a generation,
the British troops stationed therein hardly
amounting to a company 10 each five thous-
and robust Blacks ! while the White resi-.
dents-always q lean minority-hsve rsth,
er fallen off in numbers, yet remain scat
tered on their tast and isolated plantations
without injury and without fear. Life, per-
son, aud property have been far safer in
those islands, on the average, than in the
city of New York. with its boa sted intelli-
gence aud its brigade Of police. Jamaica
for an age. the most thriftless and hope.
less Of Slave Colonies--has by no means be.
come model of industry aud prosperity
since Emancipation but her moral and
social condition have certainly improved,
and she is as orderly and loyal as any 9th
er portion of the British Empire. a
French Emancipation is more recent
fact than British. But there is striking
similarity between the results as chronieled
by standard authorities on the effects Of
Emancipation In the British isles ta
The primary influence Of Emancipation
on Industry and Production is almost nee,
essarily paralyzing The slave has for
years been tantalzed by hopes and dreams
Of Liberiy-=-reporls that il was NJ hand
assurances that Il could bat httle longer be
deIayed--hopes excited Only 10 6e disap.
pointed. He has legrhed t8 teeRfd With
distrust ell demonslfaliSHs N his beEaH By
Whl,es---to look on lbs@ ss EsW Sahtflf
ances for ptoiNnRflg OF sgeFetssiRg eis
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