The native American., 1838-09-15
LATE AND IMPORTANT FROM JAMAICA, WI

LATE AND IMPORTANT FROM JAMAICA, WI.
By the ship John w. Cater Captain Meade,
we have our files to August 18th, inclusive.
The great Emancipation Day for the slaves,
August lst, passed off quietly at Kingston. The
churches were crowded. and the negroes with but
few exceptions behaved themselves in an orderly
manner, though advised to excesses, is alleged,
by the incendiary whites. Among the fetes are
enumerated specacles, bonfres, bull professions,
&c., transparency in the evening on the Parade,
which is not particularly described, and which
did not have the desired effect on the negroes,
who thus spoke of it:
eli! warra for show for we freedom on pa
rade-gaows. Warra dis-de nigger hab free,
and den put him on gallows! Ha! ha! ha see
de nagur-now him 90 get free, free for true"
Lieut.. Gov. G. J. Doyle had previously pre-
pared the way for this pacific termination to the
festivities by publishing mild and friendly pro-
clamaion to the colored inhabitants, exhortng
them to peaceful conduct and industry. Many Of
them seem to be under the illusion that with their
freedom the land of the planters also falls into
their possession. The total emancipation fell pc
cullarly hard on the poorer planters, whose eX-
istence depended on their three or four slaves
The conduct, at Falmouth, of the Rev. Messrs
knhb and Blyth, of the Baptist persuasion,
is much censured for counselling the free ne
groes from the pulpit to hold out for high wages,
when it is known such seditious recommendation
would add to the ruin of the already impoverish-
ed planter, and as consequence bring down CT
vii war and misery upon black and white. Among
other anecdotes is related the following dialogue,
overheard between master and negro:
.. | thought you were going to work to-day!
A. Yes, massa, we been thought so too.
Z. When do you intend to turn out again to
work, then!
A. We no know yet, massa-bam bye.
q. Why, if you do not soon will not employ
you again. .. ".
A. We no care d-n, massa, cause you no
employ me, plenty else buckra will.
Congregated among many of his class, who
laughed heartily at the apparent joke.
AS one of the pernicious results of suddenly
letting loose the negro population, it may he
mentioned, that on the night of August 4th, three
Ia, stabbed little white child of Mr.. kinlberg,
exclaimed exultingly, 81 am now free!''
In most of the towns in the interior the news
is satisfactory, and the freed apprentices quietly
attended, on the day of their total emancipation,
the various churches, all of them attired in their
best dresses.
Just blame is attached to those rnprncipled
persons who wish to make harvest out Of the
negroes by exciting their worst passions. Knibb,
the Baptist parson, is stated to have even recon-
mended the total abandonment Of cultivation on
the north side, rather than not obtain eXtoronate
wages While another Baptist parson, named
Whltehorn, at st. Andrews, is accused of using
the most fulsome compliments to the negroes; de-
claring them as free and refined and good as their
neighbors, that all are gentlemen and ladies', &c.
We shall hear of some rare ANAL algamatons. and
dread the consequences which such seditious con-
duct may lead to- One half his congregation
were so dsgusted that they left the chapel. The
Despatch says: One poor woman belonging Il. e.
who did belong) to Doctor Spalding, came to get
her child christened. The Rev. Mr.. - asked
the name Of the child, and where the woman lived
She. poor woman, inadvertently said massa
Spalding. He, the parson, flew into such rage
at the massa, that there is little doubt left
but the poor woman will remember the jaubation
she received as long as she lives.
The negroes were nocking into Kingston to
market with loads of fruits half ripe, to realize
cnsed of favoring the ncen 1ary Baptist preachers
Taylor and Philippe, on the Bushy Park Estate
where disturbances had ensued in consequence of|
their interference: such as recommending change
of overseers, &c. The Despatch of the 9th says:
The dsincIinaton of the negroes to labor has
become general. The account we have elsewhere
published from Port Royal is equally unfavorable
as those from St. Georges, ST. Dorothy's, ST.
Johns, St. Mary's, &c. &c.
The residence of Miss Mary Hull, at Union,
had been destroyed by fire, supposed to be by the
negroes. AT st. Andrews, the sable peasantry
struck for higher wages. The negroes at Port
Royal Mountains struck for 3s. and 4d. per day;
and the women declare they will do nothing but
pick coffee. The consequence is that the whole
Island of Jamaica remains uncutivated since Aug.
lst; and, if matters 90 on must be waste like
San Domingo. The preacher Knbb, if all is
true, threatens to revolutionize the Island and
make himself King of the Negroes. At Falmouth,
he had 1000 negroes at his heels listening to his
reasonable harrangues, out of which, 100 of them
formed his body guard, and thus surrounded he
entered Falmouth in his carriage as the Grand
4gitator. The magistrates brought him up, and
he defed them, saying that he had 10000 ne
groes at his command. The negroes focked
around him at the courthouse, and called him
"massa parson' This is the man, too, whom
Sir Lionel Smyth delights to honor.