The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-02-09
The Abolition OF Slavery and the rp.,,.h
Colonial systs m.

Colonial
From the London Times, Dec Al
daily leading US to investigate there that inves
US more both by its interest and Importance than that
which colonial policy Is built Beginning In care
lesness and indifference, then rising suddenly dsspos
ism and excessive continuing ate ryards In
perpetual yscstion between ~ rsnpy and concs sson
II no. hangs trembling on the verge utter ruin Moth
ing Indeed can save colonies except bold COM
prehensivs and immediate rsform that ssirine
upon particular and prominen abuse, shah
destroy and up sacrifice appease anger
Of an injured people but searching aud q radical Ne
FORM that shall not be content It'll aevlting sympoms,
but shall kill the disease itself
We speak OF course, not of internal and domestic
changes, but Of an alteration Of the whole course OF
policy pursued by the parent State The history of va
rous ooonies and NOR especially comparison Of thoss
which have enjoyed the blessing of self government
with those that have been debarred from it,
see the conseq not 80 much Of colonial fOlly
as OF imperial Improvement Indeed. wo need not 80
tar for proof ndsputsble Of h, truth In the projected
schemes Of the Colonial Office that have recently been
announced In this Journal there ia contained ample
toierabe lit be necessary to snnihilats the SET
Element OF Norfolk Island Is impossible to doubt that
cesssry now TO favor and assist the importation of mmk
grants into the sugar colonies. perorce believe
unjust. II Il be necessary to change the whole
treatment OF transported convicts what be thought
Of that which has prevailed to the present day. Finally
1t be necessary now to review the very system itself
OF transportation we cannot easily exsggsrsts the mis-
conduct Of those who, having Ars laid down
GUS principle of action, handed il from the
other and continued to the point Of consgnng thou
SANDS OF human beings to utter damnaon, and fertile
! island TO almost irretrievable ruin.
Andn We look back upon the history Of these trans-
acons-upon the experiment Of Norfolk Island and tho
abolition OF saverywe shall find impossible to disoo-
single Circumstance of palliation In
favour of the parent State II could .o have been known
those who presided over destnies of the coonisa
in the sven,fu period Of transition bondage to free
DOM that the natural aud inevitable consequence Of IL
berntng compulsory labour was 10 annihsts 1t alto
gether Indeed it was partly through an apprehension
OF this consequence that the plan Of appre Hticeship
lv off Of tiva
their estates. That plan suffered early and prsmats
death The term of eshp cut short and the
last vestge OF slavery disappeared in the British colonies
on the LIST of August 1888. Tbon was the time for the
Imperial Government to have shown itself In the
the time Great Britain to have held forth helping
hand to the victims she had sacrificed upon the altar Of
de.tooa: Or may be, twas dsrsssrdsd Instead Of sid
she gave order in council forbdding her subjects TO
procure from foreign shores the labor she had virtually
taken away from their own. s.1ed with an impOtsut
desire to abolish slavery throughout the globe she
tn tho Negro
apprehension Of the Coonaloce and the morbid ina
for three long years and more tho absurd prohibition
was continued In full force At length, in December
lsil, poor instslment utce extorted from
Government DESTROYS Of popularity Immigration was
thcuceforward permitted from Europe; but Africa still
remained within the charmed line that the savery
mania had attempted 10 draw around boundess tract Of
continent. This small relaxation however, piece
with the original restriction The nhabtant Of the cool
north was sent to languish under burning suns and
die Of malignant fevers that the barbarian denzsn Of
the torrid might escape the shadow Of the letters
| Of bondage Hundreds Of English gentlemen and
Creole families were pauperzed. made 10 struggle
with bitter adversely in order not to shock the peculiar
sympathes of certain sentimental phsnhropists. MOI
dad the order OF 8i3 permitting immigration from North
America place the colonis in better situation. Indeed.
ii weremember right that order carried out
The first real and substantial boon that conferred
in July 1874 which opened the Eastern 10 the
planter OF the West; but this came 40 late
that few ITS advantages have yet been made avaiabey
and is not unlikely that the experiment We announced
on Friday will for the most part supersede it.
With respect 10 the abstract question Of introducing
into pical colonies the and willing inhabitants
OF Africa tho only difficulty that surrounds the subject
is the mposbiity Of getting q, the real objections TO &C.
No one even superhcaiIy acquainted with sugar
colonies pretends to deny that the 1893 labor
always has been, and still u.s. most seriously deficient
enough and strong enough when working with tbs
shackes Of slave and ought 10 be amply sufficient
under the invg rating influence Of freedom, These
theories The unhappy coloDists have been forced
to sound, and have found them hollow. The liberated
negro In tho West Indies does not work He shows an
occasional and imperfect industry when the pressure OF
some particular want or desire impels him TO seek
means OF qualification But for regular and continuous
labor. il is not to be expected from him In Of
me perhaps, when the slave generation IL depar 81 and
others are sprung up in their room g who have not
known bondage the case NAV lie different. We do not
| ay that 1t will not be different But mesnwhis, and
pending the great Experiment. the planter 1, ruined.
Whilst Humanitarian at home prstDg the borrers
land, his money his every means. Africa IL guarded
asn were holy groutd and Jamaica 10 left to waste
such the effects oil humanity tnat has not s founds
ton in Justice.