The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-01-22
CurFEE TRADE

the infusion from the roasted and crushed her
ries, was used us beverage anterior to the fif
tecnth century. The first public coffee house.
was established in London in l6.2. Coffee wa,
introduced in France, between tho years l84O und
1860, and the first house for the sale Of coffee
was opened at Marsaillcs in 1911.
At ono time, it was chiefly produced in St
| Domingo; the exports from that Island reaching
$4,000 bags Had the revolution of 1882 not broke
out in that year, it would have reached 42, 900
This, however, caused almost a total cessation o
tho supplies The failure in st. Domingo greatly
augmented its cultur. in Cuba, Jamaca, Surnan
nnd Javn. and was subsequently introduced with
great success into Brazil, her production, in 1890
reaching 100000 bngs.
In 1884, the year in which the emancipation oct
went into effect, jamaica exported to England.
1926, ,ss3 lbs; andin s39, only ,423, 1877, show
ing IN five years after the abolition of African
slavery, decrease Of nearly onc-half. The first
import OF Brazil coffee, was made in 1909. The
imports now reach 10000 bags
lie total importation Of coffee into the JJni
ted States in 1855, amounted to I9O 764.257 ll,s.
Brazil is now the only coffee growing region
| that, through misguided British philanthropv.
has escaped the blighting curse of negro e,nan.
c'pat'on and is fact worthy to be remembered
by negr" philanthropists, that the production of
coffee i'll Brazil, largely exceeds that of Java an,
st. Domingo with the entire list of coffee rrow =.
| ing islands combined
IL has been palpably demonstrated, that tho
voluntary labor Of Africans can never be proft-
aoic. So IT negro slavery should be abolished in
brazil' there will be growing deficiency in the
supply and corresponding increase in the price.
ana hence' the kind of labor employed in the
Production oil this and other tropical produc, ions
which have become food for the millions in more
Northern ATTITUDES, becomes important to the
consumer.
The writer makes the following comparison
between the negro slaves of the United States
and the free blacks of the British West Indies
" 1t may be remarked that the rise and fall of
'roPicai productions have fuctuated with the
supply of the only labor suitable for their produc
tion beneath tropical sun-and that is African
Ihe first introduction of African slaves into
the United States (thcn British colonies) wus bv
n Dutch ship, in lG2o. From tina, period until
the prohibition of the slave trade in 1903. the
whole number of Africans introduced into tho
United States did not exceed about 375,Uon. or
tho hrsL cargo sent over, 81 were consigned to
British subjects, SO to Rhode Island 10 to French
subjects, and II to natives of Charleston.
We thus find that The Africans in the United
States, from this original small number have in
creased to 3, ,2O4,3l3, or in tic ratio of nearly
or IO to ]; while in the British West Indies
there are not two persons remaining for every
hve of the imported and their descendants. This
is seen from the following statement: There
were imported into jamaica previously to 1877,
100000 negroes, Of whom and their descendants
but 3ll.00o remained, after l1s years, to be
emancpated in 1888, the date Of the British
act.
In the whole Of the British West Indies
there were imported 100, 900; of whom, and
their desccndants but Geo, 900 remained, to he
emancipatcd. (Ssc Carey OIL the Slave Trade.
aud Compendium of the States Census, ls5O,
pages SO, e4.) These facts prove that in no part
Uf the world, and wheIner free or bond, has The
African race increased SO rapidly ny in the Uni
ted States, which is irrefiagiblc proof tha,
they have been better treated and better cared
for i'll the United States than anywhere else.
let we find class of fanatics at the North,
who are willing 10 contribute millions to Cuba
for sugar, and 10 Drazl for coffee. piIinr up an
annual balance Of trade in the two places Of over
twenty millions of dollars per annum, to see the
slave trade clandestincly c"ntinucd-to sre The
negroes annually decrnat cd-to see st. Domny
and the British West Indies ruined by cmnncipn
tion yet they carry reckless crusade against
their brethren at the South.
" The defamation Of over one million of Afi-
cans in the British West Indies alone they NAV
pass over in silence but for their Southern bretl,-
ren, who will not consent TO destroy 3,0OO,O 900
Of contcnted and we'll treated Africans by eman-
cipation. they know no bounds to their rage
though their measures, if carried out, would in
volve ruin to their own section of the country.
" Where has emancipation ever succeeded p
Where have the blacks ever been ruiscd by it to
the civilized condition of the blacks of the Uni
ted States? In no part OF Africa is the increase
of population equal to that of the Southern
States of North America.
"Mr. McCulloch, in his Geographical Dicton-
nry, speaking of Hayti, says that, 'One of the
first effects of the revelation which abolished the
slavery ftho blacks, was the enormous decrease
in the amount of agricultural produce. From
1884, the year in which the slave were declared
free BY the National Convention of France, TO
1876, the value of exported produce had sunk to
s,6O672O livres, only about five per cent of what
it had been; and seven years afterwards tho
country had become almost q desert, not SO much
from the waste of the civil war, but also from
the incidence of the black population. >"
s.s$--
THE NORTH AND SOUTH.
| The Charleston Standard, speaking of the
comparative wealth of Northern and Southern
States, has the following statement condensed
from the report Of tho Secretary of the Treas.
ury:
"The results as fur as we have thought important
to pursue the investigation, are as follows: The
population Of the States is given in one column,
and the property in the other, and taking the
ratio of property 10 population, we find that to
each individual in the State of Georgia there is
S536; in Massachusetts, $527; Connecticut.
S5O7; Louisiana, $3.50; Soutl, Carolina, $3.50
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