Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-05-07
Effects of Emancipation in Jamaica.

Effects of Emancipation in Jamaica
The New York correspondent of tho Rich.
mond Enquirer says that DIR. Bartlett, AN En-
GlislI gentleman Of high attuinments. 70.
marked to the writer in conversation tho
first result produced on the blacks bv cmou
cipation was q rapid increase i'm crime. lie
said that the lailS were soon filled with blncls
charged with crimes, and, being found insult.
ccnt to contain them. they were sent. in
large numbers, for safe Keeping, to vessels of
war lying in tho harbor of Kingston and lie
stated that, but for the strong reinforcement
OF British troops, and the organization of n
large police force over tho island. general
revolution and massacre would have super.
vencd. The doctor thinks the act Of cman-
cipatlon was suicidal and scaled the ruin of
the island. lie, with other whites, abandon
cd it and came to New York. The doctor
IS n man of superior education. of refined
literary taste and Judgment, az we'll as II
chaste and elegant writer. He for many
years edited the Albion with great ability
which uudcr his care, obtained a larrc and
profitable circulation. Ills health ialling
he was compelled to rclinquish for n fine. NJ
least, his editorial duties. and sold ont IN.
Alb'on to Mr.. Young its present editor.
The doctor removed. for a time. To Boston.
and started a weekly called the ANGLO
saxon" lie, however, has since returned to
Now York, where he at present resides
The Enquircr's correspondent refers also
to the blacks of jamaica not being content
with the freedom granted them, but bcinp
excited by fanatcal clerqymen and others
among them, they have been led to believe
that, having the brute force OF superior
numbers, they have a right to enslavc the
whites or to drive them from the island
a revolution has broken out in the parish
of Wcstmoreland in opposition to the pay
inent of some trifling taxes, and troops had
been ordered to the disturbed district. =
On attempting to leave Kingston, their
way was stopped up by carts, &c, which
had to be removed by force The few
whites remaining on the island were clam
oring fer large rcinforccmcuts of cmigrants,
to supply the places of the lazy and turbu
lent blacks. They say that an accession of
2OO,00O would not be too uuanv-showinr
that Abolitionism has ruined the island,
and produced degradation and defamation
among the freed blacks In 1885, the
year after emancipation, the negro populu-
tlon of Jamaica amounted to 311,000,
which has since been stationary, and in
some parts of the island decided decrease
has taken place. The whites number but
small portlon--say under 10000 souls.
jamaica is divided into three counties, and
each county INTO parishes. The salary of
the Governor of Jamaica is about S25 900
per annum; the religious establishments
cost $50, 900 per annum. and dissenting
ministers, as well rs those OF the establish
ed church, receive salaries, many of whom
arc blacks. 1t is the latter, both colorcd
and white, who arc urging on the negroes
to scenes of revolution, and who, if not
cflcctually subducd and controlled by Brit
ish troops, would probably assacrc the
small white population and convert the is
land into another Hayti, with some such
caricaturc OF an Emperor at It's head as
Soulouquc.
"What a finale" adds the writer, ito
English fanaticism . 1t was not enough
that England paid $160, 100000 for the
liberation of the blacks--it was not enough
that large sums were sent to the island to
support missionaries and schools-and not
enough that the laboring classes of Eng
land were compelled to pay, for years, cnor-
NOUS taxes Oh sugar, a necessary 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 inhiction upon
the whites for the benefit of the blacks, we
find that the latter, if left to their will
would either massacre the whites or drive
them from the island-rc-cnacting the
scenes Of st. Domingo; and afterwards de-
sccnd into the wasting and slothfu imbc-
cility of an ignorant and petty dcSpotism."
Richmon1 Dtputch