New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-12-03
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SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8, 1853.
SLAVE TRADE BETWEEN JAMAICA
AND THE EAST INDIES.


Great Britain has opened the cooIie slave trade
between the East Indies and Jamaica. Wilber-
force, the wise fool and the foolish wise man, who
was born unfortunately soon and lived unfcrtu-
nately long-born when the world was yet too
young to have clearly learned the difference be-
tween fanaticism and philanthropy, and lived long
enough to be the great instrument in setting up
tremendous precedent of folly by the ruin of mil
lions white and black-ought to be alive now, for
short time, just to take look at Jamaica and
the dear Africans, for whom he entertained such
tender solicitude He ought to have had seat in
the Jamaica House of Assembly, the first of this
month, at which time he would have had the plea
sure OF listening to the Governors Message where
IN his Excellency announced, to the great salts
faction of the planters" our adyices say, that
supply of East Indian coolies may be looked for in
the early months of the succeeding year,
How Wilberforce would be astonished to find
that the great mass of blacks whom he thought
would be so thrifty and industrious as free labor
ing element are so much worse than nobody that
though their number is greatly increased the island
Is thousand per cent less productive now than
when he and his fellows succeeded in ensuring the
destruction of the prosperity of that beautiful and
wealthy country by the emancipation measure.
And that 50 far from supplying the labor demand,
comparatively small as it is, the British Govern
ment has been compelled to authorize the reopen
ing of the dreadful slave trade, though not in the
African but the more barbarous East Indian chan
nel to furnish workers to keep the freed blacks
from starving of their own idleness. We wonder
if his upright but sadly befogged mind would con-
sent to receive the coolie trade as anything less
Objectionable than the African slave trade. We
suspect that his conscience would scarcely prove
conveniently pliable as those of the modern
style of English politicians, who strain at gnat
and gulph down camel without winking in the
performance of so astounding feat
The next Jamaican movement of which we ex-
pect to hear is, that some plan will be contrived
for modifying the absolute freedom conferred on
the blacks by the Wilberforcean statutes so that
the whites get them under their thumbs in such
way as to compel the lazy fellows to working up
some patent tackle of domestic apprenticeship
which will be slavery without the name, save the
sensitive conscences of the Exeter Hall political
moralists and at the same time regenerate the
desoated island. We have little doubt but that
some such policy as this will be introduced in a
very few years, and thus effectually wind-up the
free negro labor experiment. Following that will
doubtless come the re-opening of the African slave
trade in the manner in which the British Govern
ment transacts it between the East coast and the
Maurtus, and as it would be glad to now between
the West coast and Jamaica but that its hypocrisy
would be little too garing.
The Government of England has seen fit to remon-
strate with our Government because of the alleged
foreign slave trade of the Southern States and lust
for the excellence of the joke should like to
see our Government enter a solemn protest against
the conduct of the English Government in author
zing the slave trade of Mauritius, and, sending to
those waters squadron of American ships of-war
make prizes of a few British slave-traders. 1t
would be capital thing, and the proceedings to
which it would lead would pretty well ventilate
the double-dealing policy of England, and expose
the absurdity and falsity of her practice and pro-
essions to all the world. We are inclined to insist
that it shall be made plank of the Opposition
platform, that slave trade squadron be main
tanned in the Indian Ocean, to suppress the British
slave traffic between Africa and Mauritius
We again record the notable fact, that the Brit.
ish Government has authorized the opening of the
Coolie slave trade to Jamaica, as announced by
the Governor of that island in his message of the
first instant