New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-18

people in the South that interests sren
solved in such national policy .s win prevent eigra-
ton from localities already sParsey pOpulssed VIII
dense and orty their powers of cooperation; viii evolve
every hidden of the earth; will create home
market With its unequaled wealth viii increase the val
of human labor on the spot and thus abolish the do
nestle slave trade and lead rapidly and securely to the
abolition Of the whole system, equally To the benefit Of
blacks srdwhites This is what is needed. But must
be kept clear Of the old party lines 1t must be advOcs-
ted irrespective Of any party gains
In Mr. Carey'svOrk, the portion which describes the
vast crueltes Of British rule in the West Indies, is
followed by sundy statistics to show that the condition
of the slave there has deterorated since his emancpa
ton. The great argument the perpetual bondage da
ectieians is taken from this assumed deterioration and
procvity to utter barbarsm But let US hear an au-
thory the other side In the last Westminster Re-
ric is an article which eondenses the arguments favor
of emancipaticn.
On the first of August 1888, two years before the ap
premiership system expired the negroes were freed en-
tirely On the 18th. the Governor, Sir Lionel Smith
wrote to Lord Gleneg:
The population Of negroes in this island came into
the full enjoyment OF eedomsn the Ist Of August The
day was observed by proclamation of thanksgiving
ard prayer and is quite impossible for me 10 do Justice
70 the good order decom and gratitude which the whole
OF the aborDg population manifested the happy Occk
sion. Not even the irregulariy Of drunken individual
occurred On the 10th Of eptember the Governor wrote
The report of the stpendary magstrstes viii show
your Lordshp that although there has been considerable
cessation ir labor since the lst Of August has n0kere
ten r0iffg rheH encouraged - far CFrs Of RACES
while their the free labOTeTs orderly conduct aud obsi
the laws has been mos. extraordinary considering
their treatment under the recent operation OF the appren
ce law tbs island and the many prOvOcaton; they have
had 70 resentment. The planters are of course
esorng g All the means in their power 10 procure cheap
labor The third clause Of the apprentice abolition law
gave the free ab0rers the OF their houses and grounds
Tor three months that is they could only be elected after
three months notice TO quit prescribed by the act Notices
have accordingly been very generally served upon them
quit prescribed by the act and heavy rents demanded
the time means TO induce the sborert acceptow
wages. These unfortunate attempts have good deal
fardsd general cultivation by free labor but their wiling
10 work fair terms throughout all the parishes is
most saacto lily established and hen the apprentices may
have made unreasonable demands it has been good deal
owing 10 the exorbtant value Of labor udcidly fixed on
planters are disappointed thai do send troops about
the country andissae proclamatons to coerce labor"
We here see the whole history condensed
The Abolition Act allowed any black to buy cut his
apprenticeship Immediately its passage according
ly in 1896 thousand had already paid down $4,000
for their freedom and many more were in allegiance
2j6 was thus established daily wages, and Of
the black so valued his service The love of the negro
for his aotments Of ground taken advantage Of by
the white to extort money from him So noticed by the
Governor in 1888 So far from the aborers resortng
to the woods squat in idleness they submitting
to the most CALLING oppression rather than be driven
to quit their homes And again he says That the
labOrers had not fair play, fully exemplied in
many Of the magistrates reports sent to your Lord
ships Office, and more rent charged than wages
paid thus endeayOring to extort work for than
soTra tha in
debt" and he adds. the charging rent for house
and grounds for every individual of family is still con
tinued In regard TO the reduction of the sugar crop
Of jamaica be borne in mind that the export fell
from more than 100000 cwts in 1888 TO 10000 in
1882 and little than 100000 cwts in 1910, and
spite Of droughts Sugar Bill and cholera the average
export of the twelve years since 1910 has been 100000
cwts The reviewer sums up his evidence this point
fellows: Ist. That the blacks rule, willing to
give fair days work for fair days wages-that they
actually did give the when they got the other 2dy
That as rule the whites did not offer them this fair
days wages and lastly, that they did not get the fair
days work.
Now these are very important facts, which are in-
sufficiently treated of in Mr. Carey Chapter Jamaica,
though not vital 10 his main argument regards emanc
patton in this country However, as the failure Of
emancipation in Jamaica constitutes the eheral de
batae of all the admirers of the peculiar institution t
well 10 know through rrefagable statement, that it is
no failure the meanness and rapacity of the whites
sidered.
Guiana too has been freely quoted evidence of the
error Of abolition, but Mr. Barkly, its last Governor.
saws that he forwards authentic records proving that
in Il colony where he is, and long has been, large pro-
prietor 'the revenue has been hourshng population
augmenting, education spreading, crime diminishing
and trade increasing during the year just passed., and
that there appears to anticipate less favorable
result in any one of these respects in the year
entered upon
We dismiss this subject now, repeating our wish that
Mr. Carey's book may be widely read.