New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-17

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,.,.gp fun ysrious eff AID uooeiei., b''
Trustworthy rpors, bearing upon tse q1'-
t,x "A, the &C. vhlch mfe heernen
q ,l.,e, vss sunoe..ful ss regarded them in
Jsu,cs within eight years Of that eTen' ns'''!
txo .urdr-d yillsy-. ksa teen b-st By the ena'c'-
p.ted negroes. $40 VI then bad become 'reeeoia
en-. end thy had purch,sed, snors them iV''VV'
acre. Of lAad. The Governor Of Domnies says
IN bis report Of 1853, ths. tie small Proprei"f'
" bo, few year. before, were mere chastei', were
becoming the le.,ee. Of large sugar plantations Of
" hich fac. be gives .eyera instances. Ia Grensdi,
IN Iecye "a proprietary body Of considerable mag
nitode arc importance had already risen from the
" lshorue el..s"-. class OF peasant propriesSr'
AID rerter. Of l.rd. mskSg rapid strides IN proc
perity spd indspen6eIce-snds new class OF TT sdes
men had come isto existence. In Guiana the Gov
erDor write. in 1852, "populssion is augnentlns,
- education spreading. crime dininisbing and
trade increasing" IL Mon.serst the report OF
1853 declare. tba. "ro i.and in these seas eI-
A." kib;ts q more decisive tendency to social and
" moral regeneration and improvement" In ST.
Kits, in I-6 il ia sad, attendance 10 schools IL
&" steadily Increasing; crime steadily diminishing"
In ST. Vincent the condition Of the laoorer
4. described in the ofcisl returns Is almost
universally one q comfort; from lS45 to 1-oS the
spoupt Of lard either held in fec or rented py
the emancips.ed negroes increased from less than
1900 u more than 10000 acres. In l7o1, 7'2''
p.rops were living in their own houses built since
emancipation, when the laboring people amounted
70 lee. than Ia 900 persons. Nor we're there, IN
ISL, Any paupers in the island. In Tobaso, the
I" lsborers are wen-bebased and Industrious; small
proprietors have greatly multiplied among 'hem'
and many Of the common lsborers I've IN houses
built BY themselves since emancipation. Out Of ifs
entire population Of about 1900, white and coiored,
there we're 100 Of the latter paying direct axes
and 300 freehoders. In Tortola, grazing
islsDd the blacks are nearly all owners Of cattle In
British Guiana, out Of laboring population OF
20 600 80 900 are estimated n be holders OF land,
for which since they ceased to be slaves, they have
paid million sterling, or five millions Of dollars
In Antigua, says DR.. Dsvy, perfectly good au-
thorty three fourths OF the lsborer have cottages
of their own, with small freeholds, forming alto
eether about eighty. seven.yages, all built since
emancipation. near the estates on which they were
then chattels.
Here il but sketch Of the evidence on this
point-eyidence with which We might fill page,
from witnesses whose characters and whose oPpor-
tupities for observation cannot be imPeached or
doubted. True, it refers only to black people
black people whom we, in this country, think have
no rights " hich white people need respect. But,
consider that it 10 not blacks, DOR ouropnions,
that are in question. But-.hat did Great Britain
mean to do BY Emancipation Fit was to benefit
the backs-lhen, are tie blacks benefited This
is the questi, before the meeting. Is Emancl-
patton success looked at with reference to Cufee
Is Cutfee better off when his nskedness is clothed
on with torture as is WAS in 1929, according to
the official returns Of the four crown colonies than
when he is up to his ears in Mr.. Carlyles
pumpkins, and mbibing saccharine juices
as the leaee-actually the lessee-Of sugar
estates, with all their wide fields Of cane,
their boilers, their steameng ines, their sugar
houses, and all the appliances of extensive
agriculture, and of an intricate business re-
curing both head and hands! There is but
one answer possible. The most virulent o!
shareholders does not pretend that there can
be. His very complaint that the negro will
not work for bis old master is a confession
that, 80 far as the negro is concerned, Eman.
cipation is successful. For consider; work is .
Blessing only for what it gives to the moral, the
spiritual, the material man. The black man who
labors and labors hard without wages, and is paid
only in poor food, scant clothing and unlimited whip
pings, is in an improved condition when for little or
no labor, he gets as much food, and as much cloth
inR-and be could not live with less-and no whip
pings at all If in addition to this his wife and
children who once belonged to another being held ~
the materi, of his interests or the victims fhis lust
become the happy inmates Of happy though hum.
BILE home; ifhe becomes thriving villager whore
once be was an AFFECT slave; if the Church opens
ito wide portals for an enlightened worship where
he once CROPPED in heather darkness; if the school
bell cslls his children to school, where once tho
gong hasteIed them TO feld-lsbor under the LASH
then indeed does the other scale kick the beam In
short, there is nobody so bold as to dispute this
proposition unless it be one whose bodness is that
of the fool incapable either Of understanding an
eument or of comprehending fsct-that British
Emancipation, considered solely with reference to
the Black West Indian, his moral, bis intellectual,
bis material condition, is one of the most remarka-
bic and one Of the most complete acts recorded on
the Page Of history as committed by government.
Considered with reference to tho 'niggers'"
exclaims our Democratic friend. "Are there no