The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-01-05

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.rown sugar ON tho grosnd that Il viii aid you ~
sboli.hiog slavery aud necessary 70 protect you
from the impusaGon ~ e9ng lnRu~ncea ~ mere an
tile and peeunissy censLdefA,ionsi whilst MI Gar
houn (and, may add sach W. sao" me 'p'" ~.
MANNER in which ihst question V hss'ed by your w
yrrnment, as conclusive proof that your pef.sser"e
efforts Ia abolish slavery N CUBA ana Dfa1" ,'e -
trbutabie not TO any benevolent desire ~ ame"oas
the condition OF the blacks, boi 10 cHns,c.on .nA
YOUR scheme of emancipation has entirely failed, ant
that the abolition of slavery risewhcfe - indisPena
BILE to the prosperity Of your colonies Permit me u
! submit a few facts in confirmation Of this.
One Of your correspondents, under date Of Kings
ton Jamaica, September 18th, says -
"Few Of your innumcrabe readers in any part o
the globe require to be Informed thai emancipation u
every useful point Of view is total failure and vii
wind up with the total ruin OF this colony at least
and convincing the world al large that the abstract
principle Of justice which that measure was found
ed, is incompatible with the we'll bring Of t mass ion
,oho~ ben<a is ,cas Intended"
In The debate last year, Lord Stanley said, that on
60 sugar estates there had been clear loss Of 1885,
00O, an outlay Of ~ ,25O,0O0 and Sir Robert Pee
admitted, that colony in which slavery had been
abolished, could not compete with district IN which
the system continues to exist; aud Lord Brougham
in his speech on his bill entitled act for the more
eflsctuaI supp, ession II the slave tiale,' said;
"He was bound to state by clear and decided OPT.
MON, that notwithstanding the decided cnormity Of
the sacrifice made on our part the planters a. body
had suffered very greatly IN their pecuniary interest
80 He did not wish to name namcs--it
would be invidous to do so--but some most valued
friends Of his both in that house and IN the other
not 10 go beyond the precincts of Parliament, had
been losers TO q great extent by the act OF cman-
cipation He knew persons who had once counted
their returns by thousands but they had sunk to
hundreds! He knew others who bad drawn hun
drcds, but who mad now scarcely any West India
property at all The question then at once suggest
ed ITSELF and this brought him 10 the leading feature
cipation on the West India body did they mean that
the planters should suffer for the gain Of foreign colo
Mics not Tor that OF their own fellow subiectsi
Did parliament tell them, Nthe West lndians) we
have taken your slave property from you in order to
endow others with it, that they may gain what you
have lostiha they may become your competitors in the
naAkets Of the tcorid for The supply Of produce ,nhieh
longer aloio yoa to you herei re hare done
Quite the contrary"
And Sir Robert Peel, when the same bill was
under consideration in the House Of Commons,
said
"What would be, he asked, the condition of the
West India planters, if this bill were not passed.
They were prevented from employing British CAPT.
tai, but they would be subject TO the competition of
that capital employed in foreign countries. Never
was there grosser act of Injustice than would be
allowed He admitted that the West India planters
had received a compensation for their direct losses
but none should be given for their indirect losses.
They should not give the planters further compensa
ton, but they might relieve them from the competition
Of British capital employed in foreign countries They
would suffer most serious injury if the first clause
of the bill were not agreed to. Suppose the egis-
lature were to allow the colonial produce Of Cuba
and Brazs to be imported according to the views of
some gentlemen, would it be tolerated that British
k..A ..aAs
ing colonial produce by means Of slaves to be import
ed hither' You'd NOT that the total ruin Of our
eoIonies?"
And again, in the debate of the 22d June, Sir Ro-
bert Peel said
81 was anxious to make some inquiry upon that
subject and instead of any vague and general cacu
lations obtained The particulars Of the estates Of
one individual proprietor. These estates, when sla-
very was permitted, on an average Of years pro-
duced about Fl0 900 per anDum During the APP
premiership system they produced an average Of
&c 400 per annum, after payment Of all expenses.
received account, on the accuracy Of which can
rely 1t appears that from the ls Of January To the
3lst Of December, 1910, the payments altogether for
labor wages, the island taxes, repairs Of buildings
and supplies OF various kinds, such machines i'm
plemenis, &c, amounted to l0,SGl,-the actual re
ceipts were <7,028. In ls4l the payments were
<9 $3.50, and the receipts Fl 042 and in the last year
1912, when it has been said there has been suai-
e., 1885, and the receipts [7,230. SO that these
tate which produced during the existence Of slave
~ and slave labor, clio 900 year net income have,
sIuce The abolition OF slave labor sustained annual
average loss Of -t3,0ol."
These extracts shows conclussely that you are
now convinced that free labor cannot compete with
slave labor IN the cultivation of sugar and cotton
and that your prominent statesmen believe that the
abolition OF slavery in Cuba Brazil, and the United
States, would Affect their prosperity that mea-
sure has affected The prosperity OF your West India
colonies.
This brings up the question of how FAR the aboli-
ton Of slavery would affect the competition between
Cuba Brazil the United States, and your East India
possessions.
We have seen that the effect Of emancip patton has
been such, that estate which gave 10000 per an
mum profit, is now cultivated at a loss of f3 O6l |
per annum notw outstanding the discriminating duty
on sugar, which it is said gives them bounty OF
near H5,O0O,D0O per annum. Its effect would be
much the in Cubs, Brazil and the United States
1t would necessarily diminish the supply and greatly
increase the price Of sugar. cotton, &c. Now Lord
Auckland, in his communication dated 9th Of May, |
Isil, says:
"On the effect Of caste in maintaining agricultural
.eryitude, even under circumstances in many res.
poets favorable To freedom, instructive PARTICULAR
Will be found in the evidence respecting the districts
Of Coorg and Malabar. In Coorg, many slaves
eman nc ipated b, Government on It's own estates-I
have from various causes been led TO destroy their
certificates Of freedom and to place themselves again
N servtude under their former masters"
The fact that the estate referred TO by Sir Robert
Peel gave 10000 under the system Of slavery
$500 under the apprenticeship system, and Is now
cultivated at loss OF ~ 0el per annum, proves thu,
system Of coercion Is Indispensable for the profita
BILE cultivation Of sugar and cotton. As the East In
dian is in that condition, that although nomnally
Free he is nevertheless slave, you have there not
outstanding your act Of emancipation, all the advan-
tagcs Of slavery; and yor may well suppose that the
States, would transfer the production of sugar and
cotton to Indi, This II II could be done without
prejudice to the rights Of Others it would give you
a monopoly Of these great staples and thus secure