The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1858-12-01
The Beauties Of Negro Equality

! . A gentleman who has spent many years
in jamaica, and had ample opportunity
Of judging Of the effects Of the Abolition
of slavery in that island, communicates
the following information on the subject. i
Should Stewards Black Republican pro-
gramme be carried out, we should witness
the same state of things in these United
States. The Southern plantations would I
of necessity be abandoned to ruin and des- !
olation, and the thrifty white population I
of both North and South would have !
thrown upon them millions of lazy, igno- !
i.norant and brutal negroes, claiming to be
J The equal of the whites: -. .-rs - 4
s.! Ii appears that the colored people of
Jamaica are not satisfied with bare e.
quality of civil and political rights, bnt
aspire to their exclusive enjoyment Not
content with acquiring Iunds by free sale
and purchase, and by sqaalting on tracts
which twenty years ago We're valuable
plantations, thpngh now abandoned totbe !
first cone,, they wish 10 force the propri !
ietors of the estates still under cultivation
TO dispos of the remai,,s of their proper
Ity exclusively in favo: Of the colored 'sons
OF the soil,". menaciug the colony, iu the
event of continued recusancy, with the
fate of lIayti. - E' -
For many years the negroes have en-
joyed all those aivantagee over the
whites which are the unavoidable results
: of their namerical superiority in q coun-
try governed under a very liberal repre-
sentative constitution. Negroes aud mu
lattoes fill majority Of The public Of
fees; and ii there are still some of the
more important places held by whites, it
) is. in some cases, because the incumbentS
date from period anlecedenl to the e
. emancipation, and, in Others. because indi
Il viduals OF the fashionable color, with any
! IlIing like the indispensable qualifications
OF mental character, are not readily to
be found. Whenever they do possess
: some education and ability, they obtain
6 I, preference 1 do not say that this is
d The. deliberate policy of the British Gov
'l ernment and its representatives here; il
+ may well be the natural consequence OF
l. the predominance of the rcolored people
~ at the hastings and in the Legislature,
oi the Colonial Government being what is
y ssere called parliamentary" aa. g..
ie The little influence and respectabiiity
"a retained by the whi'es being derived from
ne their superior wealth and Intelligence
a. the leading spirits among The 'coloreC
ef party" have always endeavored TO efftc
& the overthrow of the former at the tX
Sc pense of the agricultural and conmercia
interests of ths island; and. with tha
'e, view, have ell her legislared against prop
erty, or refused to legr>la when pro
hc lection was required, and, as magistrate
have used all their authority in favor o
re vagrancy and crime all in the hope Q
In driving away the remaining whites. I
ny the fulilment of this scheme their pro
ny gress has been wonderful, yet still to
NJ gradual to comport with their impatienct
S. its originators are growing old, and soai
of them, like Moses, havedied before ei
IN tering the promised land A number {
Ier whites still cling to their possessions her
'rh as drowning wreiches catch at straw'
hence the wrath of the coored pollution
SO which occasionally swell too high to l
ad. restrained by pruden tial consider,
1tinns.7 :: - sz-2"s-a r."- I -f1i '-'
ler 7 Some idea may be formed of the extel
'eu to which the colored people carry the
'hu pretentions, as well as of the Intensity
their hatred for the whites, when it
ten known that the senior editor of the new
10 paper which threatens the colony wi,
mas The fare of fIay,i is (akhough mulatt,
at the Governors first munster, (or "chai
TO main of the Executive Commitlee,') pre-
vas ident of the privy connsel, member of ii
len Legislative council, cnstos rotuiorum of II
rh- country. and mayor OF the city OF King
Ter, ton, while his partner {alSo a color,
TO Ina,n is member both of the priyy q.
hhd legislative councils, justice of the pea
70 in several counties, alderman of kingsto
light house commissioner. &c., &c
ood The senior editor virtually governs the
nan llaud in the capacity of first minister, an
dn- as president of the privy council,
his would in case of the death ofthe COVER
thi- or and lieutenant governor, or the absen
'isd of one and death of the other, succe
this without dispute to the chief execuii
ronf power. p As those editors and other C
urpd men are not satisfied with their pr
agi- en-. position, it is fair to presume II
and nothing short Of the expulsion of t
Tor whites, or their determination, will do
A' them 5 '.i . -s $500 ,'...'E 80
'hen wish it were in my: power. in a (
the words, without dwelling too long on
hom most unpleasant subject, to convey to y
de- an adequate idea of the poverty, mis-,
she and degradation which the emancipati
er.d of The slaves has brought upon coun
med which the anti-slaverv papers in the u
md ted s. a,es basely representedas an exa
ncel Die for emulation | can not think
lend these shameless falsehoods without feeli
fe an indignation which it would ill beco
and me to express in adequate language
ittlet amiIinduced TO bring the subject beft