Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-05-15

q have conducted British emancipation g.
with view to furnish the strongest posi- W
ble refutation of all the theories which a
conflict with the duty of immediate aboli- il
ton. 1t has not only proved immediate d
Liberation to be safe, but preparation to be
both needless and impracticable. 1t has t
shown that black laborers, so tar from be- b
coming a nuisance by being made free, 9
are considered as highly valuable or rath-
er absolutely necessary to the communi- T
ties in which they reside, thus teaching l
us to dispense with all concern about ;
their colonization. Finally, it has begun
to set US an example OF the white and
black races living together IN peace as
we'll as freedom, even where the latter
greatly preponderates.
III did the friends of slavery calculate
the consequences, when thew essayed by
brutal violence to drive George Thomp-
son from our shores But for his GgstG-
ton from city to city throughout the u
nited Kingdom, the apprentices might
still have groaned under their old yoke
with a new name, with little prospect that
the first of August, 1910, would find
strength enough left 10 shout in the jubi-
lee To his eloquence and un,ring zeal,
added to the selfdenying labors of Joseph
Surge and his associates, the world is in
debted for this most blessed of victories.
1t is fortunate for immediateism that
the British Government perverseIy refus-
ed to abolish the system by direct act of
Parliament The act which they were
obliged to pass, and beyond which, by
:. small majority, they obstinately refused to
go, only required of the planters faith
full fulflment of the conditions of the ap-
: premiership. Their refusal TO accept
|, such law, and preference of direct
- emancipation, shows both that the design
of the apprenticeship had been perverted,
= and that it was practically absurd. Be-
). tween wages and the whip as motives to
labor, there is no intermediate stage.
Many of the West India planters, but
!; especially the hired managers and attor-
!. neys of absentee proprietors, have sub
= mitted to the necessity OF emancipation
with very i'll grace, and have endeavor-
ed to make freedom more intolerable than
= slavery. by refusing adequate wages anc
. extorting exhorbitant rent. Sir Lione
+ public assembly of planters attorney:
J., and managers in that island, You arr
y anxious to produce panic to reduce tn,
co value of property; to create dismay il
of order that you may speculate 1t wa
~ not denied. Here we have the origin O
-. those evil reports which seem so much t
the taste of most of our editors. Tha
h. Notwithstanding all, abolition has worke
~ we'll for all the parties concerned-is a
~, clear a the sun at noon in an uncloude
~ sky. Real estate has risen IN all the co
b., onies, and sales have been made at grea
10; es advances upon the prices asked 81
~ months before emancipation. Crime hs
I'd diminished. In Barbados, the punisI
'0N ments for all descriptions of offences fc
-. the two and half months immediatel
, . preceding the first Of August, 1887, WEI
oes 1926, for the same period Immediate
; f succeeding emancipation, in 1888, the
,ha were 657. At a later period, Barb
ass dos newspaper asserted that in the cou
try prisons, among a population of 800
III, 900, but two prisoners were confined Fl
ooa any cause whatever. So great has bes
= We the rivalry among the various colonies,
IT,, procure the services OF free laborers tn
10y they have almost proceeded from-a war
words to one of blows The most thin
'"s populated colonies have passed laws gi
ing special inducements TO immigratio
and some Of them have even endeayor
to obtain free c0iOred la6orers from OF
ovn country. Public improvement b
remarkably advanced in all the impo
ant colonies, and Banks, Insurance Coz
panies, Railroad Companies, institutio
quite unknown in those islands under Il
slave system, have begun to flourish
nee Even Savings Banks have been establis
free ed in Jamaica, and are receiving the "
yes, ges of the freed laborers, a proof th
eed- foresight and economy return with revi
IN ing manhood. The emancpated popul
the ton are eager for education and crov
INC into the schools and chapels of the mi
the slonaries. These are facts of a genel
ers, nature which cannot be denied On /
ceal other hand all the difficulties that have
not tended the change may be fairly impu,
nay TO the avaricious desire of the planters
pre- procure labor for less than its value. or
e. bring the new system into d:srepute
en- Ii is too late to talk of the failure of t
the British experiment. The visions of bio
osed and desolation have all passed away.
en- The working Of freedom among the c
5 of onial laborers of the West Indies, is NJ
sses no more matter of doubt, than il
stop among the freemen Of New York a
d!g- Pennsylvania. What the malcon,,
of planters may do to restore despotism il
tual not easy to say, but that the laborers "
nit continue peacefully TO work when off.l
ali6- fair wages, one may predict as safely