The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-03-29
Ern0rfs from British LYesf India Lslands

Somuch sir for production and now let us see how the
experiment has operated upon the population especially
that portion which was emancpaed Let US return now
to the Maurilius taken in that island in
is46. and the committee who superintendent report:
"Thst the total number of exapprentices and their fam
lies Is Ala The number of slaves at the time Of their
emancipation in February, 1885, 6i022 There has,
therefore, been decrease of l06Os, averaging, the
cent annually '~tvoi "A, No Is, p ss) -
at also stated in address of the Mauritus Asso
iurs oay and II had abandoned il altogether
sSo Is, p iss April isss-Governor Leighs from Gui
TO Earl Grey Informs him ola series OF the
&C. He sends dispatches showing las he say) that
these ipated people should be taught that IL
pa on Ss for pabc aesn
have hesitation in saying that this and similar
have been brought about by the bad principles nstled
into the minds he Cfeoes their rights their vanity
80 unbounded that they are easily made to believe the
most exaggerated and specious taes-(No 10, p. lS3
From Trinidad the account OF the effects Of the exper-
iment upon the colored people themselves is not
couraging than what have just seen from the other
colonies:
Trinidad vol. 45-No. page 1872 Governor Lord Har
s Earl Gregg He says that in which there
strong osnppose that the Coolies had not received
the full amount due to them, had come before him.
speak not Of the present tne because nonpayment OF
wages T. now simos, universal o, from The inability o
occurred In he ordered the Coolies be forwarded
never bsSeld ali In state Of sarvaon and more or les.
o. dlsease Although every care was taken Of them after
tnelr arrival, scarce survived the
that has come to my knowledge but there have been
meous cases In which great negec has been shown He
supposes il would be best TO leave to private
'Vol 49, page 9g enclosure in No. statement by Mr..
Of the aboers that so far from advancing In cvilsa,on
during the last or three years, when suence
within reach with it,e or no oil they have actually
retrograded. and evinced but little desire e
yersy they would revert to state ofbarbarisn ''
.''vo. as page 200. and 2ol, No 5Ear Grey to Lord
law though seconded by yoar ordshp jealous efforts and
by the order Tor the prevention OF vagancy passed by
the proclamation for the prevention OF squatng, issued by
you on 22d june 1877, has been Intellectual and has
and dissoue oflie that numbers ended
~ dying In the public hospitals and not few by the way
your lordship will the diculte, under
which we .iabo, In the treatment Of Immigrants belonging
savage or hacivlized races, whose uninoss for
:. am, liberty 10. generally understood acknowledged
prepared support your lordshp the laws
Tor placing the Immigrant iabores under and
severe discipline, provided that the power enforce
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But, Mr. President, yet the tale is not half told.
The British government did not stand idly by, to behold
the wreck OF those fine Provinces without effort TO
save them. They seem 10 have supposed that it was
practicable to produce state Of things in the West In
dies similar TO what existed in the East and endeavored
10 I'LL them with laborng population drawn from the
colored and inferior races, who might be controlled and
managed by few whites, who would be enough 10 over
people, TO whom the profits OF this labor TO accrue
Accordingly they have made great efforts, under the spe
cious name OF emigration. TO import laborers from the
Madeira isles from the East indies and from the coast OF
Africa supply the demand for labor in the cul-
ture OF sugar and coffee The consequences has been the
creation o. new species OF the slave trade equal per.
maps IN the horrors OF the middle passage, TO anything
known IN The old African slave trade before made
piracy by the laws OF most civilized nations Gov
q Jamaica in letter to Earl Grey in lsis,
informs MN Of the mortality which occurred amongst sci
OF Africans imported from Serre Leone in the ship
Arabian Out OF 23s, he says q died on the "a ssage
40 were immediately ordered TO the hospital and The
whole IN wTetched condition He ret,orts that there
100 Africans in the Yard III will moi do m cali
il baracoon") at Sierra Leone, "who Appeared verv
sckly" ~
Report of fhs commissioners Of Emisyatioa
Enclosure In No. e,p IO7, vol 46of 26s pcr.on. a.,
barkcd board the Arabian, ~ died the voyage IA
taken into the hospital Of whom IL had died and
scarcely any expected 70 survive.
Ibid l07Ai the witnesses agree in representing the
principal have been the OF disease debit
ny In which the Africans embarked at Sierra Leone
ns said that many OF these persons, when taken board
were 80 weak that II was necessary To- lii them over
me pulwarks OF the vessel; that some could hard
stand that their appearance that Of persons who
had been lately sick half sarveda superstition which
seems 70 have been partly suggested by the voraciiy with
when they ave when t'ey board and that the
deaths commenced The day which they sailed from
Sierra Leone IL also stated by surgeon that
scky state was noticed BY him 70 the emigration agent