The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-06-23
rIcI.isH PHILANTHROPY.

ENCIisH PHILANTHROPY.
u... l;hera,ion Of all the slaves IN .ne Ins
,;sh Colonies at one dash, and tue pa,A'ea.
caoooo 600 sterling to the owners mas pee"
..r..aea bv the English themselves ana pro-
c,s;r,ed bv their admirers 10 this county "
have been superhuman exsr''on OF p""'a
,bropy and generosity. IL ruined 'ne pov'
.,.,,srs !, il ,rue, and converted the BRUSH
West India Islands into SO many deset's' uu'
vba, Of ,ha,f The few must sunef LOT 'he
h.ne6t Of the mass. Men who are ac'ua'eo
nv philanthropy must not stand upon 'ne de'
.,...,;on of few individuals, that good may
900 70 the whole. Grea, has been the credit
England has obtained for her d's'n'eres'ed-
n.s. as IL il were not the easiest thing IN the
World to be generous at the expense OF ano'
Their.
In the New York Herald of the 2lst, zee
end letter from George Burton Haygarth'
written from Bolivia. in South America. which
throws some serious doubts upon the dlsinte
,rs,edness of England in this business oil
emancipatipg her slaves, and proves that she
s,ilI deserves the epithet bestowed upon her
by the Emperor Napoleon: "a nation OF shop
keepers" If DR.. Haygarth is to be credited
this affair more resembled the petty transact
lions of brokers' shop or merchants
counting house, than the solemn act OF great
Nation, speaking through its representatives
and in effect, far from discouraging has added
stimulus TO slavery every where else except
in the British Colonies. As long as slavery
was tolerated in these islands, England ny
severe prohibitory duties, excluded all sugar
but theirs. This caused the price OF sugar to
be so enormously high, in England, tnat II was
any thing but profitable. Itbecame necessary
10 find some excuse for reducing the duty on
foreign sugar, snd emancipation was great
one. She went to work deliberately, to count
the costs of her philanthropy. She traded
upon her generosity, as successfully as mer
chant trades upon his good name. She de.
termined to give up slaves, but she resolved
not to give up slave sugar. She estimated the
cost of the Liberation Of her slaves at t20e wv
600 sterling. That was TO be paid down IN
the ready, and was a considerable outlay.
But she estimated, at the same time, that by
admitting the slave sugar OF other countries,
and buying it at slave labor prices, she
should get back the principal and interest in
FIVE years, and afterwards have a clear profit
of E4,O0O,000 per annum. Her generosity
and philanthropy were calculated with the
utmost deliberation, and the profit and loss
estimated with mercantile accuracy.
The English, themselves, furnish the world
with the data by which their profits in this
philanthrcpic experiment Of running the Jamai-
ca planter to benefit cid England, can be as
certained. A Secretary of the Board OF Trade
says, I" the cost, exclusive Of duty, of 1884,
7l0 cwt. of free labor sugar, retained for con-
sumption in 1910, was, at free labor prices,
eases, 7lO, calculated at the gazette averages.
The cost of a like quantity of Brazilian or
Cuban sugar, of equal quality, would have
been. at slave labor prices, f4,141 ,lSl."
Here, then, is a clear gain of e., 600, 600 SER
ling, to the English nation, by opening the mar
kets to the foreign slave sugar. This slave
sugar being cheaper, of course excludes the
free sugar ofJamaica altogether from the mar
ket.
This, then, is the sum total of British phi
lanihropy. To consume national sugar, made
by slaves belonging TO subjects of Great BIZ
tain, on British territory, was great sin 1t
was that description of sin which is always
distasteful to British eyes. Ii was unpro-
ftable sin. John Bull was running his soul
gratis, thing not TO b. endured, when the
devil is always ready to come down handsome
ly for customer. On the other hand, to con.
sumo sugar made by the slaves of other ma.
tons, especially when four or FIVE millions
could be made by the operation, was very mo.
raj transaction. Besides, the profits are ncreas.
ing at such rate, that in very few years
they will be equal TO at least E25, 100000 per
annum.
The additional incentive TO slavery offered
by opening the markets to slave labor every
where in the British possessions activity it
must impart to the slave trade-and the enor.
nous burthens it imposes on the slave wherever
slavery is retained, must be apparent. Yet
this is British philanthropy, and these the PEG
pie who undertake TO arraign US before the
world on account of our holding slaves.
STOWEISM AND BLACK. SWANISM.
The New York Express administers to the
subjects of Queen Victoria, who have gone de.
liberately mad about Uncle Tom" and the