New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-30

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rot rendered .rere5! AZ lie less sroaadies' al
le.ssiye.
Tre bland u Jsmsics iss 81 extent OF = htile
mere tta- C COO q l.re miles. Il is thus gAay
arrer ts.r tie states o. Coruect-ut md RlOis
I.lsrd to.eihsr Ike 81 re West Ilis Islands,
il consist, Of cenrrl, group Of ulogl'a.1s' N.sa
fertile plans. Of L great F.dih. extend Il from
ihei- fo.5 70 tie coas' Being placed directly
south Of tie east eud Of Cubs and thls en- OF
from e1or'te-r breeze:, which reach i, mG,h IA
the state Of sponge slceAdy once s4leezt
/. suffer. much uore ron dronth thal either
Cu5s. HAITI. or Porto Rico; many OF its
.-ltile psins too distant nom tae mo1n'Aias
sno uDlefrethei BY sumner showers are, from
that cause, rendered worthless; Ehle the rugged
character Of much OF The interior, VITA the eli
mate lud difficulties Of transportation wholly IN
6t. II for the production Of sugar sni coffee. In
natural fertility Of soil, it IS, or rather wss-fr,
Of virgin coil [. for cultivation. none IS iefs-ie-
cidedly inferior to the other three Islands. s1i
more exposed. also, to storms and hurricanes By
which, occasionally, il suffers very severely.
Columbus discovered JsmGics on bis second
voyage, in May, 1894. In bis fourth voyage ia
1903 be ian Lis lesky vessel shore on the coast
Of the ,land, and remained there for fifteen
uoutbs Ia 1911. Don Diego, Columbus Niceroy,
seat q colony to occaPy i. The natives, As 10 tae
case OF all the West India Island. settled By the
spanisrd. were speedily worn out By unaec1s-
toned labor. Neg roes were introduced TO supply
their places; but the demand for colonial produce
was tLen v,ry slight; aud when Jamaica surren-
dered 10 Admiral Penn the fs!hef Of our William
Penn in l655, with whom was our Winslow, one
Of the founders of Plymouth Colony. and who, be-
ipg then in England. as Agent for MAs,a ,husetss,
was sent out Ia the feet by Cromwell, ss one Of
the Commissioners for experimenting such con
quests as uish. be made, il contained oly thou-
ts1d or two Of Spanish creoles, aud less number
OF negroes. Tie spaAiards submitted TO
the INVADER: most Of the negroes del
to the interior mogutains where they became
tire proeeDitors OF the usr0oD' recruited
from time to time By additional rlnsSsys
from wtofe depreds.ons Jamaics sfter-
ward suffered 40 much, and Of whom she hnsl-
ly got rid so late as 1906 only by the di'gracefal
breach Of eapituls:on int which they bsi been
induced to enter. These mAroons, transported
By that breach Of faith to Nova SCOTS, became,
sloDg with some of the refugee slaves from Viz
eins and Maryland, whom TIE British 81 the
close Of the Revolutionary War had refused to
give up, tie fret settlers Of the coo1y Of Sierra
Leone, and some Of their descendants are 81 this
dsy thriving merchants and among the lea1ilg ia
habi..uts Of mat ABa African settlement.
I'D al 20 ret
uipeo, frem which bis fee. Wa. repalsei, was
ANXIOUS 70 make all be could oct of JamaicA He
tried 10 persuade tie settlers at New Haven who
had not prOspered altogether according 30 their
expectations. 10 remove tAi'ber in body and IN
q sermoLiEirg letter endesyored 10 convince them
that they had cal from God to that work.
They declined this pressing invitation, but among
/ the sdyeniurers WHO dli % 70 Jsmaica WAS sam
uel yassaU. who had been one Of the first settlers
OF Msisschusetts, but whom the intcleranI spirit
prevailing rpeEr hal Induced to leave, and whose
large laLded Estates acquired in Jansica passed
finally together with his name, into the family
Of the Foxes, the head OF which now bore the
sr.stocIatic title OF Lord Holland.
WiDslow who died shortly sfer landing, was
succeeded BY Se5gvi:k, another New Eng land
man, who had served 10 the Parliamentary army,
ard whose posterity are still very honora5y dis
tingushed among us Bat this new COnnis-
siorer. on arriving in Jamaica, did not ind thing:
in s very promising condition. The soldiers leit
toere had been principally drawn from the Island
OF Barbados, which had then much larger
white population than 81 present-beiDg In tac5'
81 that time, Just two hundred years ago the
meat pOgulous and wealthy Ct the English colo
nies in America But these troops By no means
cane up 10 the standard OF our good Puritan,
Parliamentary soldier, who was after~srd MAJOR
General Of Massachusetts,, and in his official let
tiers be described them very much a. our le.ter-
writer's Of tO-dsy describe the Jamaica negroes
so lay and idle, ss /: cannot enter INFO the
heart OF ,ry Englishmau that such blood should
run IN tie veins Of s1y born in England To
recruit tais rather unpromising pOpu s.ion, Cron-
well ordered Thousand girls and young men 20
be enlisted in Ireland, snd be directed the admin
istrstors Of the Scottish Government 70 sppre-
te.d al known idle masterless robbers and
vsgsbOndsT for transportation thi.her A GER
tan ruuser Of prisoners Of war were also DE-
postd Of in the sane manner.
The best thing thst offered 70 these frat Eng
lsh tet,eTs in Jamaica was priFsseering sg.inst
the Spariard ard even after the establishment Of
amicsble relations between Spain and Eoglaad,
they stilkept il up. So far did Sir Thomas MOdy
ford, who was Governor in less, csrry bis notion.
Of co.oDial rights man after the heart Of our
uullifers, whom lie anticipated BY almost two
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