The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-03-12

| EMANCIPATION IN THE WEST INDIES lie
accounts, says the Mercantile Journal, received
from the West India Islands are at variance with
each other, in relation to this subect-and it is
natural that they should be so. The planters
and other residents who have predicted that the
| emancipation of the slaves would result in q
total cessation of labor, in disorder, riot, and
seQuentsy in total ruin all The colonies, We
ry naturally DESTROYS of proving the accuracy
of their predictions, and are inclined to rejoice
in and exaggerate any disaffston or trouble
which may exist, growing out OF emancipation.
On the other hand, The friends of emancipation
view things in u different Highland any obsti-
Gle to the prosperity Of the colonies disappear,
while they gaze upon The negroes, freed from
slavery and standing erect before them, freemen,
The accounts from Jamaica are more discour-
ag ing than from any part of the West Indies
which may in part be accounted for from the
fact that the papers. which are the medium
through which intelligence is chiefly conveyed
to this country, are altogether in the interest OF
the planters, and Of course represent matters as
bad as they can possibly be represented, with
any semblance of ,ruth-perhaps worse.
According to the following letter published
In the NeW Io'k CoHitiieiSi" tho pun VI I'LL
mediate emancipation promises to surpass in
success the expectations of its friends.
New HAVEN Feb. 2Ist, 1889.
Sir--If the following statement confimatory
of the facts stated in the letter of Mr. Hayes,
from Barbadoes, published few days since,
may in any way subserve the cause of truth and
righteousness, it is at your disposal. 1t was
communicated to me by the senior partner of
one of the most extensive shipping houses in
this city connected win the West India trade.
A Mr. Jackson, planter from ST. Vincent,
has been in this city within few days, and says
that the emancipation ofthe slaves on that island
works extremely well; and that his plantation
yields larger profit than it has ever done be-
fore. The emancipated slaves now do in eight
hours what was considered two days task, and
he pays the laborers dollarsa day.
MIR. Jackson farther states that he, and Mr..
Nelson OF Trinidad, with another genteman.from
the same islands. have been to Washington and
conferred with Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Clay, to en-
deavor to concert some plan to get coored Ia
borers from this country TO emigrate 10 those is
lands, as there is great want OF NaEds. Ihey
offer one dollar day for every able bodied hand.
The gentlemen at Washington were pleased with
the idea of thus dsposing OF the free blacks OF
the south, and would encourage their effor.s to
induce that class OF The colored people TO emil
CRATE Mr. Calhoun remarked that It was tue
most feasible plan of colonizing the tree blacks
that had ever been suggested
This is the amount of my information, and
it comes in so direct channel as leaves no room
to doubt its correctness. What our southern
champions of slavery will now say to this d'rect
testimony from their brother planters OF the
West Indies, of the practicabiiity ana saie'y Vi
immediate emancipation, remains TO be seen.
Trulv yours. AMOS TOWNSEND.