caklyle's remedy. 



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by the caprice and avarice of landowners. If this form of 

 slavery should not be effectual, he would restore the chat- 

 tel slavery which formerly prevailed. He admits that the 

 whites do not work here, but he does not propose to make 

 labor compulsory upon them. He would have the rate of 

 wages for the negroes determined by an arbitrary regula- 

 tion and not by the supply, as it is everywhere else. He 

 would exclude all white laborers from the West Indies j 

 by compelling the blacks to work at lower than market 

 prices. 



As these propositions logically assume that the organi- 

 zation of the black man is inferior to that of the white 

 man — and that he is not entitled to equal rights before 

 the law, but is to be classified with the brute creation, I 

 have no occasion to notice them farther than to state 

 them, for I am sure that there are but few of my readers 

 who would be interested in the discussion of such enormi- 

 ties. But as Mr. Carlyle farther justifies the course he 

 recommends, by the allegation that the negroes will not 

 work after their animal wants are supplied, and as such a 

 statement, if true, is calculated to destroy all hope of ever 

 bringing the blacks within the pale of an exalted civiliza- 

 tion, I desire a word with my readers upon that point. 



