Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-11-30

.rne beauties OF Negro Equality.
A veusleuaa who has spent many years in Ja-
msois, snd bad ample opportunity Of judging Of
ths effects Of the abolition Of slavery ia that island,
communicates the following ingornstian on the sub
ieot. should Stewards Black Republican prOgramem
he carried out, We should witness the same state
Of things in the United States The Southern Pls9-
tations would Of necessity be abandoned TO ruin
and desolstion. and the thrifty white population Of
bosb North and South would hsye thrown upon them
millions Of lazy ignorant and brutal negroes claims
ing to be the equals Of the whites
Il appears that the eolorsd people of Jamaica are
not satisfied With the bare equality Of civil and DO
iitical rights but aspire 10 their extensive enjoy
ment. Not content with acquiring lands By free
sale and purchase, and squetting on tracts which
twenty years ego we're valuable plantations though
now abandoned the first o0mer they wish to force
the propretors Of the estates still under cultivation
70 dispose Of the remains Of their property ezcu
siyely in favor Of the eolOred 'sons Of the SOIL
menacing the colony, in the event Of continued re-
ousancy with the fate Of HaJtL
For many years the negroes have enjoyed all those
advantages over the whites which are the unav0id~
able results Of their numerical superiority in
country governed under very liberal representa-
tive Constitution. Negroes and mulattoes fll ma
iority Of the public offices; and if there still
some Of the more important places held by whites,
1t is in some cases, because the incumbsnts date
from period anteeedent TO the emancipation, and,
in others, because individuals Of the fashionable
color with anything Ike the indispensable quahhea-
tious Of 3 mental character, ere not readily 10 De
found Whenever they do possess some education
and ability, they obtain preference. do net say
that this is the deliberate policy Of the British Gov
eminent and representatives. here; it msy well be
the natural consequence Of the predominanee OF the
eolored people al the hastings and ithe Legislatures
the Colonial Government being what is here called
parliamentary" r-e-r
The little influence and responsibility retained by
the whites being derived from their superior wealth
and intelligence, the leading spirits among The
ssoolored party" have always endeavored to effect
the overthrow Of the former at the expense Of the
Agricultural and commercial interests Of the island;
and with that view, have either legislated against
property or refused tc legslate when protection was
REQUIRED, and, magistrates, have used al their
authority in favor Of vsgraney and crime, all in the
hone of driving away the remaining whites. In the
fulfllment Of this scheme their progress has been
wonderful yet sti too gradual TO eomport with their
impotence; its orginstOrs are growing old and some
of them, like Moses have died before entering the
promised land. number Of whites still cling to
their possessions here as drowning Wretches catch
al sraWs; hence the wrath Of the eolored politicians
which occasionally sWes too high to be restrained
BY prudential considerations.
Some idea may be formed Of the extent to which
the oolored people carry their pretensiOns web as
Of the intensity Of their hatred for the whites when
it is known that the senior editor Of the newspaper
which threatens the colony with the fate Of HayH
Is although mulatto1 the Governors fret minister
(or chairman Of the Executive Committee, presi-
dent Of the privy council member Of the legislsiive
council custos Tol0rUzg Of the country, and mayer
Of the city Of Kingston; while his partner (also
coored mani is member Of the privy and legislative
councils justice Of the peace in several counties,
alderman Of Kingston, lighthouse commissioner,
&C, SC. The senior editor virtually governs the
island in his capacity of first minister, and, pres
ident Of the privy council he would, in case Of the
death eff the governor and lieutenant Governor, OF
the absence Of one and death Of the other succeed
without dispute to the chief executive power. As
these editors and other cOloTed men not satisfied
with their present position 1t is fair to presume that
nothing short Of the expulsion Of the whites their
determination, will do for them. .......
wish it were in my power, in 9 few words, with
out dwelling too long en- most unpleasant subject,
to convey to you an adequate idea OF the poverty,
misery and degradation which the emancipation Of
the slaves has brought upon a country which the
sntisavery papers in the United States basely rep
resented as an example for emulation. 1 can not
think Of these shameless fasehoOds without feeling
an indignation which it would Ill become meto ex~
press in adequate language am induced to bring
the subject before you by observing in the colonial
newspapers extracts from some anti-sayery pUblica-
tons respecting Jamaica, which has recently ap>
peared in the United States.
Nothing can be more untrue than the supposition
that the idle, dissolUte and criminal population Of
Kingston presents an uufsv0rable contrast to that
are thinly scattered the police insufficient, where
example for good is wanting, where the means of
subsistence for man in savage state is abundantly
provided by the liberal hand Of nature, the negroes
give themselves up to African idleness obscenity
and vice without the shadow Of restraint, which
exists in towns; aud disease, the consequence Of
their crimes and careessness is gradually thinning
their numbers. / have just returned from visit
in the parish of AIetcalie Of the most fertile
and once one Of the most ionrishing agricultural
districts Of the island.
I spent some days on what was once coffee plan
tstion, producing from seventy to one hundred
hogsheads of coffee. 1t is now OVeTgrOWn with wood
and almost impenetrable Jungle the e1uberant pro
duotion of a fertile soil abandoned TO the culture of
nature, and the whole district is so infested with
the silver~iok as to have become almost uninhsb-
table ..-
From the property referred 20 may be seen FIVE
coffee plantations OF rather the ruined mansions Of
I'VE abandoned coffee plantations, which once gave
an income TO their respective owners Of from two
to five thousand pounds year. Not o0Gee-tree is
now cultivated in the district the proprie tors have
gone-some Of themlare in great poverty in England,
some have died beggsrs, and others have left the
country sunk into obsCurity somewhere; no one
knows what has become Of them. Their successors
the negroes-Witb abundance of the finest posi-
bic soil around them which they can cultivate for
their own profit live in sQusd idleness, preferring
to sleep in the and satisfy the cravings Of hua
ger with wild fruits to the easy Labor required for
the cultivation Of garden egstables-artieles now
in great demand at high prices in the towns. Such
is the dearh Of every article requiring the most ri
fling exertion Of f0rethought and industry, that /
was compelled 10 bring from Kingston horse
loaded with American corn, intended for the food
of the animal on which l rode as well as my own
consumption.