The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-04-22
az DISP ATC II
rn,cts of Emancipation In ia


mA1ca.,
rhe New Yert correspondent Of the hiea"on"
ynossrsr Gays that DR.. Bartlett, an hoshso s.s.
t,.mar Of high attachments, remsrkea 70 'as
urit.r Ia conversation, that the iirst result pro-
a.esd on the blacks By emancipation WAS Tapio
socra.se Ia crime lie said that the jaiIa were
.non ay,ea With blacks, charged with crimes, and,
,..,,s fauud insufficient TO coatain them, they
v.re .eat. ia large Numbers, to vessels o; Wa,
for A "a keepiog lying In the barber Of Kingstoi
stated that but for the strong reinforcement,
Of British troops, aud the organization of large
police force over the Island, general revolution
ana massacre would have superyened. The doc.
tor thinks the act Of emancipation was suicidal
and sealed the ruin Of the Island. lie, with
other whites, abandoned Il aud came to New York
The doctor 10 . man Of superior education, OF re-
ened literary taste and Judgment, az well as
ehaste and elegant writer. He, for many years
edited the ALBION with great ability, which, unde'
his care, obtained large and profitable eircuia'
tion. HE health falling, he was compelled &
reauq aish for time At least bis editorial duties,
and so,d ont the AlJson to Mr.. Young, its present
editor The doctor removed, for time, TO Boston
aad started weekly, called the "Angio'sa1on
He. hov.v.r has since returned TO New Yort
where he q, present resides.
The Enqairer's correspondent refers also to the
b,seks Of Jamaica not being content with the free
dom granted them, but being excited by fsnstica'
clergy men. and others among them, they have beer
led to believe that, having the brute force Of su'
perior numbers, they have right to enslave the
whites or to drive them from the island A revo.
luton hss broken out in the parish of wes.more'
land, 10 opposition to the payment Of some srihinl
k~x&h A. Cd IN he
cd district On attempting to leave Kingston theil
way was stopped up by carts, &c, which had to bt
removed By force. The few whites remaining or
the island we're clamoripg for large renforcemen't
of emigran,s to supply the places Of the lazy and
turbulent blacks. They say that an accession Of
100000 would not be too msny-showing that abb.
Iiiionism has ruined the island, and produced de
graduation and decimasion among the freed blacks
In 1885, the year after emancipation, the negro
population Of Jamaica amounted to 81 600, which
has suoe been stationery. and In some parts Of the
isIand decided decrease has taken place. The
whites number bot small porsion-say under
10000 souls. Jamaica 10 divided into three coun
ties, and each county into parishes The salary OF
the Governor Of Jamaica 10 about $25,ooo per am
mum: the religious establishments cost $Zo,ooo per
anuum and dissenting minstere,as we'll as those Of
the e5faDiitue0 cnufCn, TeCelSo SadoAioot h""S W
whom are blacks 1t is the latter, both coiored
and white, who are urging on the negroes to scenes
of revolution, and who II not effectuslly subdued
aud controlled by British troops, would probably
massacre the small white population and convert
the island into another Hsyti. with some such ca
ricature of an Emperor at its head as Souloque.
"what finale" adds the writer, "to English "a
naticismi 1t was not enough that England paid
100000 600 for the liberation Of the blacks-it was
no. enough that large sums. were sent to the
island 70 support missionaries and schools-aud
not enough that the laboriDg classes of England
were compelled to pay, for years, enormous taxes
sugar, unnecessary of life, in order that the lazy
negroes OF Jamaica might be enabled to obtain high
prices for the sugar they, by half work, produced
After all this expense, and infection of injustice
upon the whites, for the benefit of the blacks, we
find that the latter, II left to their will, would
either massacre the whites or drive them from the
island-re-enscting the scenes Of St. Domingo; and
afterwards descend into the wasting and slothful
imbecllIty Of an ignorant and petty despotism."