New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-01

There is perhaps nothing in which the old fogy
journals Of all classes, especially our American sham
Democratic journals, have taken greater delight
than in the idea, out Of which they have striven
to squeeze BY constant repetition the utmost salts
faction it could be made to afford, that the British
West Indies have been ruined, ard especially that
the sugar cultivation of those colonies has been
destroyed, by the emancipation of the slaves.
1t is said Of the visit to England Of that good cer-
gyman, Commissary Blair Of Virginia, to socit some
assistance from the Crown toward the foundation Of
the College of William aud Mary, that to bis repre-
sentaton that the people Of Virginia had souls to be
saved be got from Attorney General Seymour only
the eruff and curt reply, damn your souls make
tobacco" This race Of Attorney. Generals and phi
lanthropists is not yet by any means extinct. 1t
seems to have been the opinion of large class Of
persons that the West Indies and their inhabitants
exist only for the purpose of producing sugar; and
all the sympathy ever expressed BY large proper
ton of American journals toward the great expert
ment Of free labor, Of civilization and Of education
going on there, might beincluded in the correspond
ing curse aud injunction, Z" Damu your souls; make
sugar.
But this taunt, so often and 50 triumphantly
peated and with such deep satisfaction to those
who employ it, is like other human feicities, likely
to prove short-ved. In fact, it has become
already no longer availabe-st least among those
who keep themselves informed as to the pro-
gress Of events. Struggling through tho in
cOnyeniences always attending every great
change, and having been Obliged to encounter
not one great change, but another also the
top of that; not merely the trials of emanci-
patton, but the still severer trisls Of free trade
obliged not merely to pay wages To their luborers
and 10 be content with that amount Of tabor which
the aborers chose to dispose Of but obll ed also to
surrender that protection which from the first in
PRODUCTION Of the sugar cultivation they had always
enjoyed and to compete in the market with slave
grown sugars, the British West luda Colonies
have, nevertheless, gradually come back to an
amount Of production nearly approaching that Of
any former period. Barbados and Antigua, the
Oldest and most hckly settled Of the British ,la ads
make more sugar by free labor than they ever did
in the most houishing period Of slave cultivation
while in every other respect the condition Of the
inhabitants is vastly improved British Guians-
which certain Pro Slavery journal of this city
that makes vast pretensions to general intelligence
will persist in speaking Of AS an istand-has
come back to the old mark, and as is stated in
private letter we have seen, the sugar planters
making fortunes. The same is the case in Trin
dad where the production has been carried far be-
yoEd the limit Of the slave tine, and whence large
quahtties-quite new feature in the trade of the
West Indies-are now shipped to the United States.
We quote on this subject from The Port Of Spain
Gazette:
"The amount of produce shipped to America will
should think, afford matter for serious speculation
to our British merchants. There are now more than
100 tuns OF American shipping loading in the Gulf
aud equal TO & bhds. of sugar and 2i2 puncheons of
molasses have left for that market since last
mary written. In return, the stocks Of American
goods on hand are very large; bIeadstuffs, lumber
&C., are in abundance and cheap But the arrivals
are looked upon with very different eyes now, when
we know that each vessel is likely TO take sugar
away in return, 10 what il when nothing went but
hard cash.
But while the other Colonies are thus recover
ing themselves, the haters Of liberty aud msligners
Of free labor have continued to draw vast satisfsc.
ton from the condition Of Jamaica which. CO.
operating with one or two l"cal journals Of that
island in the old slaye Interest they HAVEN print
ruined over aud over again, sno reduced TO the
last stage Of poverty, misery. abandonment and
desolation. Very active and conspicuous among
the i'll birds thus busy in foul'ng their own nest,
and in helping, by spreading panic, TO bring about
their own prediction that JsuI.ica must aud soon
would cease TO be u sugar A'"wing Colony, has
been The Colonial Standard a.d Jamaica Dispatch.
That journal, printed at Kingston, has been, ever
since the Emancipation question was FIRST mooted
most consistently Pro- Slavery aud most profu,ely
laehrymose-a Colonial Jeremiah, as it were, Ia
mentiDe over, not the captivity. bat the freedom
Of its country-a West Inds Niobe, pouring out
a perpetual food of tears bot over lost children,
but over lost slaves. But eyeu TIE Colonial Stoad
ard, after sitting SO long in da sbess and sadness
begins at last To light and happioess rs witness
The following from that paper oi Jinei:
"It used in some quarters. few years ago to be
Said Of TIE Colonial Standard that il wrote up the
ruin of the country TO the injury &c those who
were compelled either to cult it, soil live
by the substantial credit Of IT. commonwealth; and
there many who considered that we did positive
wrong TO the community by publishing the truth. We
believed then az we believe stir that Il was only BY
making the actual state Of the Colony known to the
Government and TO the people that there was the re-
tan