Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-01-30

white man cannot work under tropical sun; and.
unless the Africanbe used as hborer, the fairest
regions Of the New World must remain desert
In fine, negroes must be had at any cost and no
nation has right ID impose its own scrupulosity on
other free communities. If England has ruined her
own colonies, that is reason why she should seek
to check the progress of the whole American cont.
nent Such is the kind of reasoning which is becoming
more and more common every day; and we may
depend upon it, in some form under some pretext
the slave owners of the other hemisphere will again
attempt to obtain supply of negroes from the coast
of Africa. The recent importation into the French
colonies has naturally aroused their attention. and
it is no wonder that we hear it asked why few
cargoes of such "emigrants could not be brought
to New Orleans or Savannah, there to be settled &C
cording to the domestic institutions of the State
With this renewed vitality Of slavery, owing to the
rapidly increasing value of the slave, we have now
t. deal ~
And it is not by preaching, or protesting, or
threatening, denouncng, that the objects Of hu-
manity can he attained. The last generation were
content to be merely destructves they broke down
the slave system in the West Indies without attemp
ting to replace it by BETTER and the consequence
has been the multiplication of the former revs and
a deepening Of the guilt in which we Indirectly par
ticipate consumers of the slave-raised produce
After 20 years experience We are now called upon
to provide remedy. On all sides we hear the same
cry-the colonies pershing for want of sufficient
labor. By additional supplies alone can the princ.
pie of free labor in the tropics be vindcated, and
RIA. blow struck the iniqaities agans. which We
have so long detained. Our attention has been d.
rected to a report of the council migration for
the Island of Trinidad, which shows how British
colony may decay while all around it is 1ourishing
If Trinidad had remained under Spanish sway it
might, in spite of tyranny and misrule, be the
wealthy island which its position and fertility would
INT W lear hot ali tho
island contains 125O 900 acres yet the extent of all
the land now under cultivation is only about So 807
acres, and of this the sugar plantations cover
only "a, 095 acres. The entire number of agricul-
tural 'aborers working for wages in the cultivation
of sugar and cocoa is only Ii, 900, of whom nearly
5000 are immigrants from India and China, intro
duced at the public expense 1t is found that these
are by far better aborers for wages than the negro
who it is stated will not be stimulated to greater
industry by any increase of wages" And at the
present time the planters would gladly obtain labor
by an advance of wages The high price of sugar
and other tropical productions has stimulated enter
PRISE greater extent of land is being brought un-
der cultivation and all that is wanted for the devel
opment of the colony is supply of hands. Such
are the fertility and the abundance of land that "the
expense of establishing on virgin land estate cap
able of producing $50 hogsheads of sugar. including
the cost Of machinery and buildings, would not ex-
coed 10000 sterling" But with the present supply
of labor even the present production Of the colony
cannot be kept up. The colonists, therefore, beg
the government to assist them in obtaining immi-
grants from China and India. The colony, says the
report, could without difficulty meet the expense of
introducing and without risk find employment for
500 Chinese immigrants. But it is to British India
that the colony chiefly looks. Under free system
the coolies work better than Africans The former
ambitious and work for wages; the latter 60 off
and squat in remote districts content to support life
little. Now this document comes, think,
OPPORTUNITY at present. There can be no doubt
that slavery will once more gain the ascendant
less carry out plan Of free labor Our colonies
in the West are the field for such scheme, our en-
pre in the East may furnish the laborers, and the
new hold we shall have Asia will give facilities
for doing what we wish. Whether we should send
mutinous sepoys the water is matter hardly
yet ripe for decision but think, if they are to
be transported anywhere, they may as well people
Trinidad as the Andamans or any Asatic island
But It is evident tnat the wnoIe question w0ot
Indian cultivation must now be examined, and with
such colonies Jamaica, Trinidad, and Guiana,
there is reason why should not show that the
culture of the tropics by free labor is the impos
sibility which the par.izans of slavery represent