PRACTICABLE FORM OF NEGRO EMANCIPATION. THE appeal made by our
American correspondent Miss Wormeley, whose name has before been favourably introduced to our readers as a writer of fiction, ought not to be without result. We agree with her in thinking that the cases to which she alludes afford an oppoitunity for giving practical effect to the sympathies excited by the perusal of Uncle Tom's Cabin, which is not attainable by a general agitation, by addresses, or by "Ladies' Conventions."
It is not with the main object of the soi-disant Abolitionists that we disagree, but with their mode. Slavery is a great calamity ; under it the most painful hardships may be, and are, endured ; and it is the part of Christians to attempt a rescue for their fellow creatures. But we may rush at an object so as to fall in the at- tempt, to rouse the most angry irritation in those whom we hustle, and even to break the object itself. It is thus with the more im- pulsive Abolitionists. They cannot suddenly uproot an institution; in their headlong attempts to do so, they arouse the angry fears of all who see property and social tranquillity at stake ; and the agitation positively engages the conservative motives to resist the attempts at emancipating the Blacks, as identical with attempts at lowering and injuring the Whites. But there is still a duty towards the Blacks which may be per- formed. They are hardly used; the victims of an untoward institu- tion, for whose wrongs they often suffer most grievously. If they suffer from an inborn inferiority of race, that does not prevent, but rather enhances our compassionate consideration. Even the ma- ligned master often suffers too, as the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin has made familiar to the public ; for it is no slight pain to the kind- hearted, if circumstances oblige him to surrender the proteges that have been attached to him by his own benevolence, and they become the property of other and harder masters. Although custom discountenances the separation of families, such things do happen. Now these are cases of suffering which it is the part of the philan- thropist to. alleviate ; and it is not the less his duty because in such instances his help would be practicable. One of the fears which have been excited by the inconsiderate precipitancy of Abolitionists is, that an inferior race may be sud- denly thrown as a disturber into society ; it is thought that his conduct will inevitably make him an obtruder and a nuisance, if not a danger. Let individuals of the race be lifted up from this abject state ; let them be encouraged and trained to a decorous and becoming social behaviour ; and thus let other classes be taught by practical inoffensive that the emancipated Negro can be a harm- less and an noffensive member of society. This would be a mode of elevating the Negro by representation, not the less efficacious because it would be modest.
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