On this page

• Text (1)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    Untitled Article

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Untitled Article

    to his own benefit . But beyond this * it seems there is to be an appointment of stipendiary magistrates , judges , police , moral and religious teachers , and others , under the control of his Majesty , by which fresh expenses will be incurred , and some considerable amount of jobbery , all of which must come out of the pockets of

    the English nation . The whole plan , in short , is crude and illdigested . It is the work of a shallow brain ; but little else could have been expected from a man like Mr . Stanley , more anxious to make a display for the purpose of setting people on to stare , as at the tricks of a mountebank , than to consider wisely and dispassionately , and to avail himself of every means of procuring knowledge . His whole endeavour seems to have been to show in how short , a

    time he could cut the Gordian knot of the slavery question , which has originated so many disputes . Since writing the above , three clauses of the Bill have passed , and with such large majorities , that I may assume that his Majesty ' s Ministers will have it all their own way without further

    opposition . The clauses are , first , that the slaves are to remain slaves , and eligible to the magistrate ' s whip under the name of apprentices . Secondly , That twenty tnillions of pounds sterling are to be paid to those who call themselves the West India interest , by way of a sop to stop their mouths , and without any consideration of how it is to be raised , and within what time . The third clause

    is , that the English people are to be at the expense of maintaining magistrates , judges , teachers , police ^ and troops , all at the disposal of his Majesty ' s Ministers , with , of course , the usual amount of jobbery , which is the pest of all public business . Mr . Wason moved as an amendment , that the whole expense should be met by a tax on property , but this , as a matter of course , was instantly scouted by all * respectable * men .

    The apprenticeship , as before shown , is merely a change of names , for the purpose of ensuring to the masters twelve years of hard labour from all slaves above six years of age , and a provision has been made also , to visit any improvidence of the father upon the children , by making them slaves for a large portion of their lives , thus making it the evident interest of the master to encourage improvidence in his slaves . This apprenticeship therefore , if the data I have taken be correct , is far more thau sufficient to enable

    the master to extract from the carcass of the slave the market value of it , as the biped brute which the slave-owners have commonly considered him . If therefore the system be carried into action , there is no pretext for asking a single shilling of compensation from the English nation . If compensation be granted by

    the English nation , then there is no pretext for forcing it a second time out of the labour of the negro himself . The only pretext after that , for keeping him in subjection at all , whether under the name of a slave or an apprentice , must be his own benefit . Therefore , the whole of his earnings should be applied to his own

    Untitled Article

    472 On the Ministerial Plan far ike

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1833, page 472, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2618/page/32/