Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1817-08-06

Ilabor.s which should be regulated &C
cording to local circumstances, on ma
Itsre investigation thus would the IA
Eborers or, as they are termed ID OIL
Domingo, cultivaiors, be enabled 70 pro-
cure for themselves few triHing CON
forts, and it is scaiSe!y necessary to re,
mark how effec:ualiy The payment oil
wages, in return ~ labor, would correct
the cultivate, with his e,nplover, by the
strongest Of ali tiN, self Incest.
After the rxpuision OF The French
fran st. Domingo, on tle establishment
lof regular government by the BLACKS,
liz Was in contemplation TO adopt 'his
Iprincipie in liking the price of labor
.lnot Tat il is to tr received as a problem
iof any merit IL pcl',ica economy to mea-
Isure the rate Of wares permanently, by
1.-THE will OF the Legislature. Attempts 10
interfere in such cases are usually pro-
l,jucliye Of dissatisfaction, and do harm.
Labor should at all times be lett to End
Its own level, and 10 answer the demand,
Except perhaps or The first occurrence of
a great change in the order and constr
tuition OF socistv when interests are I'M
settled, fol IN reversed, and clashing
doubts in MT ssaf being composed. A
! .6u per day. s1id probably have b=en
considered an.fEs by the Planters under
the ancient regime; but to reconcile op
Ipustion ii was determined to make trial
!, Iof an appropriation of one fourth part of
the gros, produce to the cultiyator, a
flsystem that has been found by expert
ence calculated to give general satisiac-
thion in the circumstances of that coun-
,ltry, and is now embodied into fixed
Ilaw. On ceGan day, after crop time,
the aggregate produce is weighed and
:. lpuriioned o;'',ile buyers who go round
the country, hing ready 10 conyertit in
to cash II he srconveniences attendanl
lon annual setgas ment are remedled by
occasional advances on the part OF the
}propretors, so as 10 enable the cUltifa.
!, |tors on the Estate TO procure necessaries
while the accumulation in reserve is o.
i lcourse beneficialto the interests Of the
), prudent. A street police and the exer
= tons Of MARRIAGES. prevent instances o.
. inoxication frc being freguent--ihl:
Evil, it might b, 'hought, would be a con
sequence OF wealth suddenly acquired
;. Especially in tts.aaae ofisnorant ptrscNa
). but, as ~ military affairs, discipline i:
! Essential 10 he we'll being Of an army, ST
a strict po..ce, and punishment whcr
eeualk necessary in the ad
lministra,ion of al estate, and no where
is such police maee efficient than in tina
islapd,
fl the case ofuncleared lands and new
r. settlements, sone useful hints may pos
:. is,tiy be derived from the practice D st
II q lningo, wheis the blacks snnst b,
i lsupposed to unterstsnd full we'll the ma
/. lturc of the equivalent that is suited t,
the wants of thi gnondanl fellow slaves
y "A man of 5 stry with some it'll
Il crrafs, .-".' ,~{sit ~ capital, 'ni";, AZ lhi
Ii view, feel himself competent to under
: take the cultivation of an estate. iii
!. South America, in parts adjacent /,
v French and Dutch Guyana. even on III
: banks of the rivers, Coraptain and Esse
n lqnlM under British protection, fertil
districts, in stare OF nature might b
II c.esred and plaEt,d at au expence com
y iparatively trliins and free from the ex
). lorbitant demands which the settler woul
: save to encounter in many Of the Island:
= Fly agreei e with his laborcrs to assig
&C. them one fourth part of the whole a
II 4
e .mple number Of lands necessary TO ena
,tlble him to prosecute his design, wherea
e 10 purchase Sufficient quantity of slay,.
y might be wholly out Of his power.
:, 1t has been ascertaned that the appor
II lcnltlg OF task wark, With suitable in
i. l,ucrments, has been attended win ii
is lbast e4ect in stimulating the energies q
&c tne neEro--ln such Cases, of course III
ID Remuneration is proporlioned 10 tn
'e lantity Of labor perforned.- pol
ie ty Of this measure Nli! be at once al
lie parent, when We Consider th- cIispositio
h lof man TO adapt his labor 10 il { revar,
,r regulating the former by tht freouenc
yiot the latter.
One great bar to improvement ii IN
q West Indies, is to be found in the q
~ iStina practice Of yaluing estates accort
J" ing TO he humber oil negroes attacbe
y 70 them--the consequence is, few ind
u ylduals, but some Of desperate forum,
q WIZ be found 10 embark IN the purchas
OF an estate IN most Of the British We
40 india possessions, because The first GU
10 lay exceeds in amount what any prude,
- man would thick proper to hazard
= such aspeculat'on attended with yario,
- risks. The position is not altered by II
~ circumstance of that outlay being cen
~ muted Tor personal bonds, guarded t
II mort pacre 1epdc nc tb., ,,to,.