Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-09-10
Carlyle and the Tribune.

The Cincinnati Commercial explains how the
New York Tribune has caught Tartar" 1t
says that its managing editor, in order to secure
sensation for his paper, contracted with Thos.
Carlyle, the English cync, for series of essays,
at the rate of thousand dollars in gold, for
matter sufficient to make printed page of the
Tribune The first essay has come and has
been published and was doubtless paid for
with such grace as a man exhibits in paying for
a whipping! The whole article is direct
and scornful assault upon all the things that the
Tribune has ever advocated or countenanced. )"
In the following extract Mr.. Carlyle tells the
readers of the Tribune his opinion of the work
which Mr. Greeley and company have just ac-
complished for the Africans in this country:
By far the notabest result of swarmery in
these times, is that of the late American war,
with settlement of the niger question for re-
suit Essentially the niger question was one
of the smallest; and in itself did not much con-
Germ mankind in the present time of struggles
and hurries. One always rather likes the mig
ger; evidently a poor blockhead with goood
dispositions, affections attachments-wlth a
turn for niger melodies, and the like; he is the
only savage of all the colored races that doesn't
actually live beside him, and work and increase
and be merry. The Almighty Maker has ap-
pointed him to be servant. Under penalty OF
heavens curse, neither party to his pre-appolnt-
ment shall neglect or misdo his duties therein;
and it is certain Though as yet widely unknown
stewardship on the nomadic principle, at the
rate of so many, shillings per day, cannot be
other than misdone. Stewardship,
like all solid contracts between men like we'd
lock itself, which was once nomadic enough,
temporary enough J must become a contract of
permanency, not easy to dissolve, but difficult
extremey-a contract for life," if you can
imagine (which you cannot, without many vi e
laws and regulations and great deal of earnest
thought and anxious experience will evidently
be the best of all. And this was already the
niger essential position. Mischief, irregular
tiles, injustices did probably abound between
niger and Buckra but the poisonous taproot
Of all mischief, and impossibility of fairness,
humanity or we'll doing in the contract, never
had been there! Of all else the remedy was
easy In comparison vitality important to every
just man concerned in it and, under all obstruc-
tons (which, in the American case, begirt with
frantic 'abolitionists, fire breathings like the
old Chimera were immense) was gradually
getting itself done. 70 me individually the
niger case was not the most pressing in the
world, but among the least SO! America, how
ever, had got into swarmery upon it mot Amer
ica's blame either, but in great part ours, and
that in the nonsense we sent over to them) !;
and felt that in the heavens or the earth there
was nothing so godlike or incomparably pressing
to be done. Their energy, their valor, their
&C., &c., were worthy of the stock they sprang
from and now, poor fellows, done it is, with
witness. A continent of the earth has been
submerged, for certain years. by deluges as
from pit of hell; half million (some say a
whole million, but surely they. exaggerate, Of
have slit one another into horrid death, into a
temporary humor, which will leave centuries of
remembrance, fierce enough and 100000
blacks men and brothers, (of Sort are com
pletely "emancipated; launched into the
career of improvement-likely to be improved
off the face of the earth in a generation or
two