Smyrna times., 1855-11-07
Jamaica and Annexation.

/ eTHl1ehl. One also trusted JDat the INJURY L
her own property would be less than it was
IN both particulars she was sadly mistakeu.-
The poverty, the wretchedness, and the con
tempt of law and order which have prevailed il
Jamaica since the act Of emancipation, have
served a terrible example to our own South
ern States. and confirmed our planters NOR,
fully in their views. Nor has England sue
ceeded, as yet, in effecting dIsuniou. Her di
Iect and decided patronage of principles moi
endorsed by the majority of our States, ant
with wh ch she herself has no earthly concern
excited, we will venture to state, in this coun.
try, says the Philadelphia Bulletin, anything
but dissension.
And now, that the by no means good-natured
experiment has been worked out, England
hnds herself, as regards jamaica, in the condi-
tion OF the wretchcd IIelot, who was obliged
to become "terrlble example" to the rising
generation. She intoX cated hers, lfwth hopes
Ot mIschlet to America, and now finds that
she has only served as warning to the more
temperate not to indulge to excess in political
eXtraVagances. AL interim poor jamaica has
been rulned-trampled down to the dust--and
treated with far greater severity than her plan
ters were ever allowed to treat their blacks
To take mans property from his possession
Tor the use of government, or to carry out ii
government principle, may be all very well, but
not unless he receives. a fair equivalent, This
was not done IN Jam Ilca-run ensued, and the
best and most loyal subjec OF the crown have
been converted into. its bnterest enemies by
that act of emancipation, which had its origin
III YlndlctlreneSs, lis growth III folly, and It's
result in wretchedness.
In an extract from a late jamaica paper VIC
find Il statement to the effect that the deprecia-
ton of property IN the island is fearful to con-
template An Instance is given in the Falmouth
Post of gentleman who memoralized Lord
John Russell, Secretary of State for the Colo
nies, shortly before his retirement from office.
This gentleman had property to the amount of
eight hundred thousand pounds sterling, all Of
which he invested in freehOlds or on the
security of estates which, prior to the Emanci-
patton Act,wou1d have readily sold for one
million ot. pounds HIS property, Of course,
was very greatly reduced, but having official
assurance of 4" protection " he continued to
largely improve his estates. The estates are
now worthless, the planter having been obliged
to abandon not less than thirty y-one to become
mere wilderness, while the s.oticial :" promise
of protection by which he was deluded into
rum is not worth one straw.
1t is not to be supposed that this oppression
has been patiently borne by the intelligent and
planters of Jamaica. The day has
gone by when a man can be led or misled by
oulcrles Of "lOyalty" to utter ruin, and deem
il pleasure. Martydom is out of fashion,
At the present day men look more to facts and
interests md are less swayed by musty tradi-
ton and musty old middle age notions. And
we are not ,astonished TO fiHd, in consequence,
such an article as the following in the Falmouth
Post, in which the editor, after mentioning
several "aggravatcd cases of DISTRESS" caused
by the Emancipation Act, says'that 2 sa..
"}Fhere IS no quarter to which the colonsts
can look with anything like a reasonable hope
for such aid as would lead TO a restoration of
PROPERTY, unless it be to The United States of
america, ,oho, If they can secure, By negotia-
ttOn.Or other means, the possession Of Cuba,
a0Ouh be naturally ,dariOus and ready, ifa fa-
parable opPortumity wefe 10 occur, to carry Out
the policy Of 70 our isle Of springs
Allegiance would, as a MATES of course, be
formluduae obstacle in tire way ofa movement
of this kind, and we could indeed be sorry to
see the star spangled banner the modern
and model republic waving over the forts Of
the colony, and over every public. building.-.
we are among the many loyal subjects OF the
British Crown who exclaim daily, England,
with ,all.thy faults, love thee still We would
rather endure any suffering than forfeit our ma
tlonallty; but, as careful observers Of passing
events we have noticed, with no small degree
OF pain, a growing disatfectionto aogoyernment
VIII Ichahas acted, during the last ten or twelve
years, fhe part OF an unnatural parent, looking
on with cold-hearted unconcern, on the increas-
ing poverty, and misery Of a people who are
the victims ofanuuprihcipled policy We fear
that tlIereare tOotDany ourfellOw-colonist who,
absolutely ruined by the policy, woull gladly
avail themselves Of any, change by which they
could better their condition, and if Jamaica is
not entirely valueless in the estimation ofthe
councillors OF Queen Victoria, they will spur-
sue a course of conduct which will check the
progress OF fdisaifectIOna and bitter hatred. The
continued abandonment of estates may lead to
evil Of no common kind, among which we reck-
on fhe inability to support institutions for the
protection of life and property" ,.es...s d .. i
This article requires no Comment. It is evil
dent however that at the rate at which England
Is going on With. her war, there can be no
doubt that in a few years she viii Have the
agreeable Alternative Of abandoning "a few of
het Improbable colohies---or,o of being ruined
altogether. sa55aEaaI assad ksjmsvyrg .is....h
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..9PRIcEs RIsING,-7It is said that the. cost, of
yarlpus articles used in the prosecution. of war;
has risen greatly since the European difficulties
commenced. Saftpetre, for instance,u has 1ih-
creased fronS six TO fourteen cents per pound,
and gunpowder from stenitio twenty vcents,-
Goiena lead is already one cent per pound
hlghef and, naval stores generally have ad-
vanced about Twenty-Five per cent. al 7''d"g
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REoEsf0 coAL FoRMkrioSSss.4aIeisa an inter
esting geoiegicaf fact thatat Haroe Island, the
Kane ftretie Bxpedition found coal apparently
ofsreeensd dfermationsa The, grain of the wood
was stll -Perceptible, but, i was interspersed
with small masses of q very pure resin.t The
supply was limited ii depth ON y by the frost,
ahdWssso teosea thatsitlcouldI be ashoseledf no
wrhoutdifficullysiuiswssf foaaa 4e,buga well.
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