Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-02-21
SENATOR TOOMBs's LECTURE IN
ROSTON.

In support Of one Of the positions taken by
sert the article below taken from the New Y ork
Express of February 7th. If ever horse
suffered from nettles in his tail, or bird with
wasp under its wing, SO must the Tribune
versary of the Express, which keeps the 1ri-
June in perpetual fever heat by continual
battery of facts against its crude and unsound
theories:
"SAUL AMONG THE PRoPHETs. -Colored
persons and negroes can find constant employ
ment and good wages, it seems, in the British
island of Jamaica. Not that there are not
plenty of negroes in that portion of her Brit
annie Majestys dominions-indeed the whole
Of that lovely island is overrun by them-but
the most of them having been born and bred
under the blissful free negro SYSTEM they are
next to good for nothing. They won't work.
They are incorrgibly lazy, and will not labor
for more than will but Just suffice for the wants
of nature. Hence agriculture, commerce,
everything, under the blight of such an un.
thrifty, INDECENT and demoraized population,
are languishing, if not perishing, to such an
extent now that the government, in order, if
possible, to arrest the downward tendency Of
things, is seriously thinking of sending
to the United States for better class Of
negroes and hence the British governor, in
his address at the opening Of the Provincial
Legislature, recommends The transportation Of
fugitive SLdres from our Southern States iohO
haze taken refuge IN Canada, TO the island Of
Jamaica, for the following reasons:
"'The people who may, If matters be properly
ta1 sInpa In I'D
hither from America are precisely the sort OF
industrial population we require besides, they
are admirably adapted to the climate of this
island. Bringing with them an amount Of
civilization far higher than that Of the gcner
atty Of The ta6oring population Of this island,
and acquainted as they are TO a much greater
extent with agriculture and mechanical arts
two of the greatest desiderata in Jamaica--the
black and colored people Of America are not
only admirably calculated to develop the innu-
nerable resources Of the island to a far greater
extent than the natives are at present capable
Of, but they will to a certainty, If brought here,
be the means Of improving our native peas
antry, by continually presenting, TO a people
so initiative, examples worthy for them to fol-
low.r
"The British Governor of Jamaica, we infer
from this, is very sensible man. The testi-
mony he gives here, to the humanizing and
elevating influences with which the African is
surrounded, in the United States-eyen in a
condition of servitude,-scatter to the winds
all the fnespun scntimentality OF the Duchess
Of Sutherland, and those of her class, who labor
under the haucination, that the only thing
that is needed to raise the negro to the same
level Of personal and political independence,
occupied by the wbites,-is freedom The
l. NH he fsob ~
to the Jamaica negroes, at so dear a price
some twenty-five years since, and with such
flourish of phianthropic trumpeis, at the time,
has not operated to make its recipients half as
automatically or morally-as the slaves in
the Southern States Of the American Union, to
whom the blessing Of freedom have not yet
| (happily7) been vouchsafed. 'Sambo,' held to
labor on his cotton, or rice, or sugar planta-
| ton, in Carolina, Georgia or Louisiana-the
British Government is now trying to coax to
come over to Jamaica, as examples worthy to
be followed by 'Sambo' not held to labor
and, therefore, no laborer at all-therel
ave do notsee how the poltico philanthropists,
who strike for freedom here, are going TO get
over, or explain away this ugly and most in
opportune recommendation Of the British Gov
ernor 1t is n far more valuable testimony TO
the incapacity Of the negrofor sefgovernment
even under the most favorable circumstances,
and to the management Of slaves by the mild
system in vogue in the Southern States, than
all the strong.worded editorials Of the Morning
Thundergust, or all the long.winded orations
Of Hon. Mr.. Humanitarian Buncombe. 1t
speaks facts, and Of all other things in this
world, there is nothing your political abolition
ist lives in so much terror Of, as fact. He
cannot stand it. 1t kills him outright
The Governor of Jamaica must be very
great 'doughface,' else he never could have put
forth so formidable pro-slavery argument
Indeed, we are not quite sure he is not some