New-York daily tribune., 1854-08-28
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, MONDAY. AUGUST %. 1854.

.et.nes has been demonstrated b. tie tLOu-aIds
To- have lft their bones h"rei sad ~ .he counisr
emigration ot others ltle t"oes a. ~ enormous eA
ptLse, through stupid agreement 90 the psr' Oi OUT
wi.e ntB-addifg altogether. some hundreds ~ thod-
sand. t. our island debnOre than sufficient 20 h-vc
e2rc.tea every child IN the island, since RI era oi
emancipation; and 90 have converted the Descendants
at the ausplon slaves into an Intelligent, industrious
and yiTluous peasaDiTy One would nave N-.u,
the.e successive failures would have opened the eyes
of the pantocracy TO the than nonsense OF
deayotIc to people the island Of Jamaica IN apy such
manner and 10 reduce the already star7l- wages 0f
ler aborers from shilling sterling o .!aepence
day 10 still further starving point. Bat 10, every
lesson il thrown away them, that they eau bat
revenge themselves the hated negroes Accordingly,
vi fId thousands of our native population driven
20 the pestlcntal shores of Navy Bay for that sub
stence which is denied them in the land of their birth
We also see hordes of Chinese arriving here, u the
hoVe of driving the natives out Of the field But this
is not all; a writer singing himself " CREOLE has
actually sou letter to every paper IL the island IL
which he gIavely proposet 70 convert Jlmlica into
convict settle and bring the lesser rogues Of
Fl gland here and let them loose upon the ticket
Ctleaye system-givEg them grants Of hnd and other
rdulcences, which is denied 10 the honest natives
thus holding out premium 20 refined roguery in En-
gland. And for what To iDfuse into 4 new sup
Wy Of what is called Saxon blood. Cniortu
latcy, however, A CREOLE" has not told us how We
TO ayad having big rOeues instead Of lesser rascal
sent here to renew tie Anglo-Saxon race.
Thus we find the planters ard others, WHO arrogite
to hCmsevcs the titles Of the better cases
c0ly keeping the poor negroes in ignorance then
Blaming and even cursing thin for that Ignorance.
We see them treating H. IN like brutes, and, under
penal ,nactments shutting the Temple OF Knowledge
ogan, them for tUo ceHtTries; and then, when they
have been in state Of freedom for siTeea y.ar turn
ing Up the whites OF their eyes ia holy horror that this
Oppressed race Las not become angels IN virne, aud
SOCmCus IL wisdom in that short space Of time, al
though nothing has been done for them IN the way OF
oducaiion We them virtually thrust from of he
properties where they had bestowed years of unrequtr
I'd toll; and then We them abused because thes
lurclase their little properties. We see them
driven from their country through the influx of horde
ct barbarian pagans; and then We see them abused
for leaving. Whatever they do, they to be
cursed and abused II is the story of the wolf that
wanted 10 eat the lamb over again. Make whatever
excusc the lamb will however just, there il still
frosh matter of accusation against him.
have written lengtbiy and perhaps, warmly on
tls subject, because feel what write. Born in the
principal agricultural parish of this island, and having
lived there almost all my life-a period OF thrtyt~O
years--I am fully cOnversant with all have written
about and can vouch for all my statements tdos
defyrg any man controvcrt them. Ny obc in be-
ing tus particular is 10 show the Amerc people that
he ALLEGED failure of West Indian Emancipation is
greatly exaggerated; and that though the negro has
not ade so much improvement bis best friends
could with him, still he has improved; ID that the
stories about his rctroression altogether untrue.
And even where be- has failed the sin must be lai Ia
other doors than his. II is 10 he hoped that should
freedom 10 the Southern States be decrecd by the
sovereign American people they will avoid the rock on
which We Jamaicans have split and by cOnciatory
policy secure the gratitude of people Vho with all
tlpr faIt, are remarkable for the warmth Of their az
fcctions toward those who trest them kindly