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The Daily Dispatch: April 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
off, agriculture neglected, manufactures brought to a dead halt, and his whole Empire threatened with ruin. If revolution should come at the back of all this, he will have nobody to blame but himself. The Russian serfs are white men, of the same blood with their masters. We do not therefore pretend to say that they ought to be treated as African slaves; that is, never to be emancipated at all. Far from it. We think they should be gradually absorbed into the class of free white men. Many of them are allowed to exercise their own talents by their masters. They are merchants, lawyers, divines, and everything else that a man can be in Russia. A nobleman sometimes owns a wealthy merchant in Moscow or St. Petersburg. They are of the same color, and the same blood with their masters, and therefore they ought to be emancipated. But not after this fashion. Not so suddenly as to produce a dearth of labor to cultivate the earth, and carry on the various avocations of civilized life.