Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-09-04

=. tAOuSSn tuC dCtudI NUMBER O
e the inhabitants is now only about a hund
req thousand. 1t possessed an inexhaust
! aole soil OF amazing fertility and depth
3 II mas been ascertained by actual measure
= menl, that IN some places the rich alluvi
= a. compost extends to the depth of one
: hundred and forty feet. There are, there
. fields of cane which have been kept I'D b,
= = process called 'rattooning' from forty, 4
! ilfty, sixty, and seventy years. 1t is only
necessary to thrust the top of the cane in.
: 10 The soil, when it springs up and spon-
taneously yields the richest produce
lhls IS the province called Demerara. -
! Ihe average of the crops of the years OF
1882 and 1883, prior to the period of ap-
;. premiership, was 5000 hogsheads.
during the year 1888, it was 46,868
hiogsheads, being 6,l2I hogsheads less
than was raised during the period of slave
fy. Here is a reduction, but not large
one, when we look at the circumstances
OF the colony in 1888. That was what
may be called the year of transition
during the apprenticeship, the negroes,
to use very forcib,e American phrase.
We're almost used up Their masters
determined to get all out of the slaves
winch the laws would allow. But after
the memorable 1st of August, the negro
VINO, contrary to his own will, had been
transferred from the raising of coffee TO
the cultivation Of sugar. would no lonoer
remain a sugar cultivator, but returned to
the old estates where coffee was grown
BESIDES this, between the years 1883 and
1888, there was a diminuton, bv the
frlghtful mortality among the negroes. of
no less than four thousand. 1t is terrible
to contemplate the destruction of human
life among the negroes, especially durino
the continuance Of slavery. In British
Guiana, during the course of seventeen
years, one fourth of the entire black pon-
ulation, over and above all the births.
were marked for the grave; they diedthe
victims OF despolism the most alrocious
that ever afflictedthe human race. Now.
lie. any man look at the unsettled condition |
OF the negroes during this period, while |
passing from one state to another. and
from one. species of agricultural labor TO
another, and then look at the amount pro-
duced by them, and say whether the me-
gro, under all the circumstances, has not.
since the lst of August, 1888, proved
himself 60 be actually industrious, instead
OF lncurably lndo!ent | am here happy
to state that / have not found, since that
period, from the mouth of the Surinam 10
the mouth of the Oronoco, single plant
er VINO said that he was willing to return
to the old system of negro-slavery. lat
his annunciation the walls of the church
ang with applause.l They declare with I
one voice, the day that you emancipated I
the negroes you liberated u.s. FLoud 1
and long applause.l ,
1 now come to
TRINIDAD.
La 1888, the amount of sugar made !
was 1916 hhds., while in 1888 it was :
2O'72t hhds., exhibiting diminution of !
~u4o. Inc same causes operated in this
colony as IN British Guiana, with this ex. :
ceptIon that coffee is not cultivated. but )
III us place cocoa is raised which is lioht- )
CT 10 the labor of its cultivation than su-
gar Hence, many negroes, when left to ;
InelF own choice, passed from the culture !;
OF sugar to that of cocoa. In Other 70
spects, the remarks made on Guiana orc
all applicable to Trinidad. =
The next colony shall mention, is that !
81 BARBADOS. J
Here there has beenno decrease of pop i,
alatlon. but on the contrary slight in. 3
crease. La 1888, the sugar crop was 81 :
Jl5. being an increase of 6O43 hhds.. =
while IN 1888 it was 33,056, being an in n
crease of 6O43. This increase is great n
md cheering. [ know it to be correct. +
or | nave in my possession the returns
complete; but not only has there been an Il
increase in this single year over one of :,
he years during the continuance of slave. :,
y, but it is found that this year, 1888. ex- .
leeds by 10000 bids. the average amount e
u the seven years Immediately proceed g
ng.
Ii then We put these three colonies to- n
yether, we shall find that on the whole v
here has been scarce any diminution of !;
he amount of produce exported to the mo- q
her country. y
rejoice that am thus enabled to pre- $,
'ent TO you and to all men an argument, 3
onnded on figures, to prove that emanci- II
patton is safe. The praise, however, of Il
hese favorable results is not due to the e,
planters, but mainly to the negroes them "
selves, and to those excellent counsellors "
he Christian missionaries, who have left "
Ill else that was dear to them, that they b
might devote themselves to the well-being II
ofa despised. neglected and down-trodden Il
people. All who are familiar with the d
course ofevents since the lst of August, II
1888, well know that the planters have v
endeavored with all their power to revive G
he ancient system. To show this, it will c;