Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-06-29

with all these facts Il evidences before them, what
could British statesmen have ioreseen from the eman.
cipation of slaves in the West Indies, but the idle
ness and worthlessness OF the whole population and
is not this actually the result Do not all the state
ments agree IN asserting, that the system OF APP
premiership has failed realize the anticipated
advantages and the state of things will be still
more dcplurable If the NEGRO shall Obtain hlS
perfect liberty Now what will he the consequence
of all this Mhy that the British West Indies
will soon cease 10 produce sugar Tor expectation,
and will therefore throw the monopoly of It's pro-
dnc,on into t. hands of the slasc-holding islands,
and of Louisiana aud the florda> IN our own conn
try and this will contribute Al once to a rapid rlsc
in slave property.
When St Domingo FIRST liberated the lma-
einatonS of mere speculative statesmen led them
TO behold a belt of black republics stretching
through the West India Islands. dlusng then mor-
Al influence b. commerce and social intercourse
throughout the labitabc Globe. Now What WIS The
fact WHY, that - Domingo wa, soon found To
have such an die worthless population IN her
newly cmancipated blacks, thai her commerce was
at once dcstrosed she has entirely ceased 10 ~
port sugar. although formerly the most productive
sugar growing island in the world. Under these
circumstances, 10 talk of moral influence, is per
tectly absurd Those black ISLANDERS have been,
By the effect, Of their own lazine>s and vices, as
elle, tualy cut off from the rest of the world rs if
ST Domingo had been enclosed by Bishop Berkc-
lev forty fool wall of brass. The London Qnar-
tcrly Review, in one of It's most powerful articles,
asserts, that nothing but the condition of 81 Do
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10 have borne the oppression oi the mother coun-
Try rs long -. They did thai ST DOMINGO belng
thrown out OF the competition in the production of
sugar, gave a sort OF monopoly to the British
Islands, whlel, enabled them 10 bear the oppressive
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we are let alone by the busy mcddIng phllanlno-
pists who can attend Ia every body 5 business but
Their own, every negro that gets his liberty IN the
West Indies, 81 III South America, VIII contribute
10 i rise, upon precisely the same principles, IN
slase property III ON country. The liberation OF
the slaves in the British Ncst India Islands, i al
ready producing that effect. II the French, span
ards, Portuguese, Danes, a.. shall be anwlsc
enough 10 folio" HIS lead, the southern siales Of
oar nhion Will most aSSufedlY reap the beneili :;
and II Brazil Too should follow the example, ihe eff
iect would Tee almost complete 1t would ave us
a monopoly IN both Su9ar and cotton. Snear /,
not made by free labor any where in the world.
INen IN China all the sugar and cotton districts are
cultivated by slave Labor, Wueh, IN nay opinion,
has sci To rest forever in warm countries tin, qnc>-
ton about the relative advantages 81 free and slave
labor. The cultivation OF suaaf requires great
deal OF hard labor which can be expected Of tn"
slave alone. In warm countries the principle of
ldieheSS ulnmplls over that oi accumulation and
hence slave lhhor IS universally the most efficient
IN warm and tropical attitudes. II all the slaves in
the West Indies shall ever be liberated, Louisiana
will become an Ehiorddo.
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