The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-03-29

ample compensation Tor their abandoned properties and
sacrificed capital"
the Ise Of France Ata msetngo the planters who made
communication TO the Home Government, IL was said
(Ibid No. 4. Enclosure ,p 2Io
The actual condition q The proprietary body loudly and
down by The expenses Of their estates
caused by exo1bant money wages and the large amount
OF provisions extorled from them by the laborers"
In British Guiana we find the same story, The plan
tiers from that colony in an address TO Earl Grey say
'we glad find your ordshp acknowledges that ths
real asss q the distress n the West indies was 70 % found
We have only been the victims Of that great original
mistake, but Of OF blunde and contrary
repaaiion for the injuries which have been inflicted upon
US; for we assure your ordship that he measures
eaeIoas for our relief as those which have Preceded shsm
and by which have been led from bad to until
entirely ruined" Againi "We feel what In the
condition Of who. having been robbed Of valuable
properly adver,ises that he would be happy sacrifice
hy per cent OF Il, and say nothing the subject"
Out thirty sugar Berbie they say one
has been profitable (see vol 45. Encl in No. IL p. 1857
come next to Trinidad Lord Harris, the governor,
in letter TO Earl Grey, in April, ls4s, says;
"In rejecting tho depressed state Of affairs in this
colony, and on lis prospects which daily becomes more
might not be afforded, alienation found. whereby the
burden which now weighs down the planter. Nigh, be
ruin quickly ovetake them. Il 10 perhaps saddor and
painful them struggling and oing against adj
s s s aSos sna e
neratve, and that failure be the sole result 1t Is
Distressing witness this, and the time to be
that much Of the misery from which they suf-
ering, and that which awaits them, is Of nature which
they unable TO avert by any acts of their II 10
pitiabe witness fine colony daily deerioatnga land,
enjoying almost every blessing under Heaven suffering
from shock from which II does rally but the deepest
pang Of all Englishman is the hearts and afec
OF whole population becoming gradually aienated
from the country which he loves
81 could quote your ordshp estates, far soil Is
concerned Of great value and giving previously eman
cipation, large income which the Whole Of the
dempton money was expended in improvements, which
now morgnged their full value and their propr
etors resident Creoes, from being in good crcum
stances, reduced to the last exremes"-(Vol 49, No.
p. 1919
In Montsenat where the population was denser, and
the experiment ought TO have been successful,
find the following communication from its president:
'Montserat 45. p. l09The President. admonishng the
government, states
sIn this island, in which wages, believe, have long
been below the other colonies, still far from
being in condition, under existing practice and manage
menf. of being able compete with slave colonies II
vprin II is still lingo insryailo" Page ll3 shows
to ell S5i in 1886 The President states, p f07i 'Mr
Worth properties valued Els 100, sold for the due
them, El8I This was by arrangement but the absence
of speaks great want OF capital or total dis
81 prospects OF the colony The house OF
Mr.. Buser, valued xiO0, first sold for the taxes
9s and being redeemed by him, was soon after put
up and sold Tor E55"
And how is il, Mr.. President, as to the total Of
West India production, before and since the emancpa
ton act Iquoe from the Democratic Review, January
number, 1850: