Washington telegraph., 1853-05-18
Fruits of Negro Emancipation,

manifested throu5 5hout the country as to the nro-
Dable action OF the Government of Spain in regard
70 CUBAN slavery, elected by the incipient steps
already taken for the emancipation of certain
class the following facts in relation TO the effects
"hica freedom has upon the negro, upon society
and upon communities, may not be wholly min
terestlng, or ettlrelS voia OF benefit
, Before the establishments of the French Repnb-
lie, IN 1915, fraEce had a productive ard fertile
colony Cayenne. situated on the northeastern
coast of South America half a degree or so nboye
the Equator, and not far distant from the mouth
| OF the Amazon-the largest river on earth. and
whose commerce. before the lapse OF a quarter of
| a century, we firmly believe. will not be insigniii
cant when compared with that OF the FATHER of
| Waters, our own Mississippi. The territory is
twice as large as that of the State of New York
It's climate Is healthy and agreeable; the soil is
| capable of producing, in bounteous profusiou
! many of the most valuable articles of commerce
Its sugar plantations once yielded 100000 of
pounds; Its cotton farms 100000 pounds. its Glove
! plantations 100000 pounds and all its agricultural
| and other resources were promising brilliant and
| increasing; IN every respect, supporting 20 600
| Frenchmen IN afiuence and prosperity. Welding
! handsome and increasing revenue to the mother
country, and keeping the blacks in comfort. and
| gradually improving them all respects socially.
mentally and niordIy-when the act of enoanc;:
patton passed by the French Republic in IS4s
threw dismal cloud over the lovely scene beg.
caring the whites, and rendering dissolute and
| barbarlc the blacks. To use the lane,1are of 2.
| cotemporary, its once fertile fields of industry
are fast relapsing into unwhoesome wiIds: and its
once wel-ordered prosperous and happy society
has been converted into motley. squalid vicious
| work-hdting, poverty-stricken. reckless rabbe."
As the blacks OF jamaica according TO the London
| Times, are rapidly degenerating into barbarism
under the influences of the freedom thew were so
incapable OF appreciatns, but which was thrust
upon them by the British Governments so the free
negroes of Cayenne, not having passed through
any novitiate, not having had the advantages OF
preparatory process, have sunk instead of rising.
mentally and morally. until it would be Il blessing
| to them and an advantage to civilization TO once
more place them under the control of masters and
| owners
proposition has been made to the French
| Government TO surrender the whole cultivated
territory of Cayenne, which once supported 20 600
| Frenchmen in afiluence, to the mother country
| for some and three-fourth millions of dollars
and to abandon it entirely to the convict and negro
population. In utter despair the once opuent
| proprietors have given up all hopes of regenera-
ton, and ask the country which has ruined them
a sum about sufficient to enable them to get to
! some other country uncursed by the evils of
miserable a false, and an mpracticable philan-
! thropy.
If this system of findiscriminate emancipation-
this making negro, with all his animal instincts
and brutal passions, free man-the responsibility
of which state he is capable of appreciaf-
ing in exalted sense, than is the graded infant
| to know OF the rights of man the prerogatIves
of the elective lranchise-resIIlted III anv good in
any shape, the evil would not be so unbearable
and common sense men might be enabled to look
upon the efforts OF misguided phianthropists with
some degree of patience. But the fruit of their
| labor is all of the Dead Sea ORDER bitter and re-
pugnant; all is bad, all is injurious They ruin
the matter; tkey demoraize and barbarize the
| slave; for the mild improving slavery of the law
they substitute the slavery of vice and dissipation
and the poor African rapidly sinks to the depths
of the degradation in which his fathers have wal
lowed for centuries all hopes of improvement are
thereby cut off for the timc the lights of christi
anlty grow DINNER; civilization reires in disgust
| and In the destruction of commerce, the rum OF
colonies, the n1poverishncnt of masters, the de-
gradation of slaves, and in the triumph OF indo-
lence, vice. dissipation sensuaiity and crime the
| emanclpatlonists and abolionists, may eXult. IF
they can, the fruits which the success of their
| philanthropic endeavors have brought forthl
Having referred to the blighting effects of cnan-
| cipatlon IN Cayenne, we give, by way OF iustra-
ton. the following result of the emancipation act
| in Jamaica, given i'll the report OF the Assem-
| bly, made in 1892:
Sugar Estates abandoned totally. .12s
| Partially abandoned II
Coffee Estates absolutely abandoned. ...... 90
| Partially abandoned Observation-Disclosures. 66
/ NSSOiNNNAI
| dohed ... d
| Number of acres 39l. 1877
From the foregoing it will be seen, that within
the snort space of one year, nearly 100000 acres
OF as fine land as there is upon earth have been in
whole or part abandoned, and are aow running to
weeds. And this process has been going on ever
| since the passage of the Emancipation Act by the
British Parliament, some twenty years ago Clio
| rous estates have become widernesses: and the
dark Ms ght of African barbarsn with all its oath-
some and degrading adunctS, has been brought
back to darkle over the once pleasant seats OF
! civilization religion and refinement As Madam
| ROLAND. when she reached the place of execution
IN Paris; turned 10 the statue of liberty and ex-
claimed: SO Liberty, what crimes are they COM
mltting in thy nameE SO may all real pban-
thropists says: %, modern philanthropy W hat a
libel thou art upon thy namer'
| Negro emancip patton in Cuba would be produc-
tive of equally deploiable results upon that is
land, as has beenthe case in Jamaica and CAYENNE
| The island would be ruined, its commerce destroy.
ed, its white inhabitants compelled to leave and
It's negroes would relapse into the native natural
barbaIisuI, of their ancestors. Such has been the
| general experience; there is no likelihood the Gu
! ban blacks will prove an exception 10 the usual
| rule. Without proper preparation for n state OF
| comparative freedom, it seems impossible that
there can be any other result. Colonization pro-
poses TO promote that preparation. but modern
| philanthropy and abolitionisrh scout at it.
| n. o. Buletin
The Washington Union OF the Goth inst, contains
a lengthy editorial on the Cuban question: which,
when examined even supericially will he found
to be mere plagiarism of the letter of Mr. Ever