New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-05


| slave or Blach Republican, or Raiical Ao,i,:
iepis! who wrote thar language, but savehotisr OF
Virginia. This, too, told the story Of Jamaica. There
| they bad large pan'a'ions, and when slavery hai
esbausts il OF s first strength they LEFT il and went
back, and further back. 70 get more virgin soil
u ba.t and the work Of ruin went until the whole
Island bad been thus desola'ed. Then followed t'e
cry Of e?isplas IN ,t comp,anesef rh me
they did mpan he thanked Col for long as they
had spirit enough TO complain there was hope.
ref. renee 10 Edwarjss History Of the British West
lbdies' showed that during the eighty years which
preceded the emancipation there were seven periods
In which planters in Jamaica made precisely the
same complaint, ard in many instances the language
berg cNT6aiigl that used after the emancipation
took p ace They ssid their plantations vera going
to ruin, and in many instances the owners who were
there gave up their estates, ard returned 70 Europe.
in other cases-wbeJe the proprietors lived in En-.
gland, Ireland, or Sootland-by deputizing he man.
ag. mcnt Of the estate TO Attorney he to al
ov, rseer, he in bis turn to bookkeepcr, AMI the
bookkeepeT 70 two or three servants the estates were
rendered uDproductive. wire sold, and were often
bought by one Of the subordnates ut small cost.
Such was the effect Of slave-labor that the soil very
soon gave way. Slaves would not cult yate il as free
men would. As man of the cOmmOnest observation,
he would pledge bis reputation that II thu hills along
the HUDSON put under the cultivation Of say the
soil would be worthless in five years. Slavery had
go. here the most productive part of the earth,
ard was moststarving on it. 1t had turned
paradise into wilderness, while the office OF freedom
was to turn the Wilderness into paradise. why,
if this audience when at the moment Of birth bad been
tnached from the arms of their mothers, had grown
up and been made 10 feel they had no rights II they
had their mothers eshed their sisters prostued,
their brothers Murdered, and their old ather sold to
90 Oh sugar plantation until he fell into grave o.
4 sery. would they not do just as little work as they
POSSIBLY could and keep soul and body together An
lrishmaE-Yes, Sirl.
The speaker then illustrated how much more work
was often got out of slaves by the expedent Of giving
them better food than they had been accustomed to
IT, then, little motive OF something to cat put before
a man in Slavery had accomplished 60 much, VIVA
would rot be accomplished by motive OF human
bad. In jamaica i lad resulted in their becoming
calouscd 10 human sympathy, prOtgate ia their hab
its, and opened the way to their becoming sooner or
later bankrupt. In Jamaica the planters occupied
princely palaces. Their cellars were stocked with
the choicest Wines and every vain luxury that could
be thought of, they INDUCED In. Extravaganza was
the Fl ut Of dleDess and planters were compelled to
purchase easy credit To get trusted was easy,
but to pay bills was not so easy. But pay day mast
come crops were mOrtgaged in advance, and at last
estates were mortgaged, and bad not the decree OF
emancipation been made just as it was, Ill one years
tin there would have been financial reyulsion fear,
full il IFS character. As it was, 700 was paid
by The British Government to the planters, as
reimbursement for the value OF their slaves.
OF this amount, only three millions went to the
West ILdies seventeen mions going to the holders of
the mortgages their estates in Liverpool Glasgow,
aid London. Precisely that course tn )uth WA now
uursuiug. Their crops were mortgaged in advance,
and their plantations too, were rapidly falling under
emancipation, with the little amount OF funds that the
three millions afforded them, launched out into shop
keeping. But idleness had done its work The
plaLteIs had DO practically, and their attempts
were failures Too proud to work themselves, they
lived a precariOus subsistence, employing the men
II ey had emancpated and when the time for paying
them their wages came, they were unable to pay
them and were forced to give from time 70 time,
few acres of land which formed the foundation OF
freehold estate Of the once enslaved man The on.e
slave now free man, VIGOROUS and active because
Of the hardsbips he he has suffered the once
n aster proud, proGjgate and dlapidated because
Of his dleness-sueh vas the picture presented IN
Jamaica In frequent instances emancipated slaves
were now the owners Of large plantations. They
cohtii uing to improve IN conaiuG eecn year
the raising of sugar, and from year to year enhance
their material prosperity.
TO the criticisms against emancipation in the West
Indies Mr.. Garrett also alluded. 1t had been said
that the emancipatcd slaves were lazy, and did not
work as well as they did before This needed expla-
nation. Previous to the emancipation, for years, the
overseers bed been accustomed to mark out for each
slave certain task to perform: mat TASK constitutes
they had still regarded that us n days work, aud
though they accomplished it by loa to III O'Clock In
the morning, yet from force OF habit they ana no. 90
any more. II would take some time to nd ignorant
men of this prejudice. But to this rule there were
exceptions and those exceptions were wealthy men:
Another thing which had prevented the material
prosperity of the country was the free trade OF Great
Britain. The freed men Of Jamaica could not a;
obce compete with the slave labor Of the other Yves:
Indian islands, and the result was that her market
was restricted But he was happy to say that every
decade showed marked Improvement 10 the charac-
ter of the emaDcpeted slaves-showed more industry
and less RIGHTEOUSNESS.
In conclusion, Mr.. Garnett urged upon his brethren
TO prove Themselves worthy OF the name Of men.
They had to encounter difficulties, yet should they
strive the harder. Trey could prove II they would,
that colored men were worthy Of citizenship, aud
worthy to be encouraged in all the ways OF human
and paid for an acre of land and built cottage upon
it. FASTENED The day for emancipation of the four mil
lions of human beings in the United States.
The Rev. VIM. Goooel followed Mr.. Garnet in
lengthy address, after which the audience was dis.
missed with a tenodiction.