Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-07-10

1t would seem to IT quire little intelligence to see
that the emancipatio of the negroes in the West
Indies has been miserable failure. We have had
many indications of late which tell US that this opn.
ion is beginning to prevail where it may do some
good. And the following extract from an article in
the Jamaica Journal, brought by the latest arrival
from that Island, June 18th, openly advocates the
establishment of slave labor. Its meaning is plain
and unmstakable:
What needs there TO be better proof that slave
labor is more profitable than free labor, than the ex
ample of Cuba Look at the value of real estate
theIe-compare it with that Of rceholds in Jamaica.
Why, the price paid for single estate there is
G8O0,OO0 This is the condition of Cuba under the
slave system Now, look at Jamaica under the free.
What has been the result! Why. the price of real
estate fell 10 nothing, after it could not be solo, and
avhen sale was made, the land 1vaS actually given
aavay-the price paid for freehold not more than
equang the value of its live and dead stock Bear in
mind, that previous TO free labor, Jamaica tvas as
prosperous Cuba--lGmd ruled high-eStates -four.
lshed and all the wide spread ruin now see has
been subsequent to emancipation
This of thinSiDg has doubtless been brought
about by the increased demand for sugar and tropical
products indeed the same PAPER says that attention
has been directed TO the cultivation of the cane by
the high prices now ruling
This feeling has not been confined to individuals.
There good deal of excitement among the
people concerning the necessity for supply of slave
labor in some shape: and the Kingston Standard has
been writing series of editorials upon the subject.
The Standard however prefers the Coolie system,
and IN it's issue of the 1th of June, says:
The Inhabitants of Demerara have peti,ioned Par
lament for laborers. They affirm that rerc popula-
ton adequate to the agricultural capabilities of the
colony, there IS scarcely limit to the ertent to 1chi
cotton might be produced but they show that the
present population is not than adequate TO the
actual cultivation of the country and that if cotton
production to large exlent is to be entered upon,
large addition OF laborng people absolutely neces.
sary.
He adds IF we had million of sous in Jamaica,
instead OF some three hundred and fifty thousand
we oeieve that there is scarcely limit 10 the value
tnat m ght De ascrlbed to its productive ndustry-
Manchester might be relieved of all dependence up
on The Southern States of America
In Inc same paper, of June 2, we find the follow
ng:-lt has been said, and truly said that manv of
the estates that have been abandoned since 1893,
wera estates that but for the existence of slavery
when the7 were first settled never would have been
established at all. If we go to India and supply
ourselves with Asiatc labor, an outcry is raised
against the introduction of Pagan superstition and
of starving idolence tUe claim to resort to africa
for support Of that labor aehich is peculiarly adap-
ted to the groth Of staples, and to the severity
OF our climate we are stigmatized as little better
than slave traders in disguise.
On June the writer remarks We all see how
difficult 1t is to obtain supply of labor in Jamaica
In point of fact but for the fortutous incidence of the
tate captured slave cargo, we have not received
single Immigrant into the island for several years.
We have positive evidence that Cuba is recruiting
her population at the rate of from twenty thousand
to thirty thousand per annum, and we know that the
people thus recruited slaves whose labor is com
pusory yet We allow this monstrous competition to
90 on.
The Standard, Of June !, says The New York
papers announce, on the authority of Messrs Barng's
CIRCULAR that further rise of two shllings her cwt
had taken place in sugar, with firm market, II
England would insist on putting down the trade
Cuba would be harmless in this respect but If sht
succeeds an procuring the seventy thousand slaves 70,
1hrGh provision IS kocn 10 haze been already made
=" the course Of the present gear, there can be nc
!oSo mat she may shortly exercise very important
influence on the sugar market.
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