The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-20

THn ArPnoACuIE0 DEs0IArToN or JAxAToA.-
Hardly has EoglaDd recovered from the shock
that way given 10 htr Indian empire BY the eaast
or her philanthropists to make the Hindoos take
the Exeter Hall road 70 heaven, by biting cart
ridges creased with mutton fat, than now wsr
between her Saxon troops and the inferior races
in her West Indian colonies looms up.
Our correspondence from Jamaica, published
few days since, and oday, gives an account a
the opposition of the negroes to the authorities
10 the parish of Westmoreland, and the seditious
teachings OF their preachers elsewhere, even =
Kingston itself These show that tho m.,e-
ment is not some purely local riot, but ia = psrt
Of that "irrepreesible conflict" betweo. -
white and black races, Of which Senator Seward
s the propagandist here. In Jamaica, the blacks.
having vast numerical prcponderance over tn
whites, already begin to proclaim that these an
the mulattoes "must be showed into tho sea"
and the spirit Of revolt is spreading throughout
the island. When such conflict begins In Q
community comprising three hundred thousand
negroes aod some ten or fifteen thousand poverty
stricken whites, tho result cannot be doubtful
The recent movement In Westmoreland be-
been suppressed; but as yet no ono has
been punished, while the files of Jamaica
papers now before us are filled with such express
sions as tbese:-"The first lesson to be tsupts
the people Is submission" "the growth OF disaE
fiction which has too papably manifested itssH
amongst the lower classes "signal examples
have to be made;" "never before have they
showed 30 much daring;" "the spirit of insubos-
dination and lawlcssness does not manifest itse1f
in Wcstmoreland alone;" can iscipieut desire On
the part of certain class that the country should
be entirely in their hands-in short, that Jamaioa
should be a second Hayti" 1t is not alone the
editors of the Colonial Standard that use language
like the above. 1t is found in communicates
in its columns from Manchester, We're, FalmouG
and other places. One of these closes with these
ominous wOrds:-'I fear, sir, that our quiet Ia
Smerely superficial, and that beneath there ase
swellings aud surgiDgs which would break forth
if they could"
And it is superficial The present proceedings
in the British Parliament, and among the anti
slavery fanatics of Eogland, are admirably caicu7
lated to stimulate the blacks of Jamaica to 70
bellion, just as those Of the French Assembly in|
1890 did those of Hayti. The white inhabitaats|
are striving to have an act passed by the Impe-
rial Parliament authorizing the importation ID
coolies from India into Jamaica, to supply that
necessary labor which the freed negroes will not|
give; and the Exeter Hall fanatics are den0uno
ing it as an outrage upon the liberated blaoka
The countenance Of Exeter Hall Is not need
ed to make the blacks oppose the importar
ton Of coolies. The experiment was tried
some years since, and the contest betwesa|
negroes and Hindoos was iDauguTated. Tho
consequence was that the latter were nesrly|
all abandoned hy their employers, aud mostly
returned to India by charitable subscriptOol
Letters published in our columns three year.
ago depicted the miserable condition of the few
who remained. As they gathered round tn
passengers of an occasional steamer, pleading
for aims, the negroes would mock and deridd
them, calling out to the strangers "don't giv
'em anything, massa; dey don't belong to us"
Governor Darling may, perhaps, report to tn
home government that all is well, as the Cover
nors in India did before the rebellion there. Bu(
if he does, he knows not the pent up volcano
that is surging beneath his feet Emancipatios
was one act of the tragedy that is working it
self out in Jamaica. The forced cessation q
the apprenticeship before its term expired We
another. Revolution will he the next; aud tn
last bloody catastrophy no one darcs to contem
plate Like causes must produce like effect
under similarity of circumstances Hayti Is th
awaits both.