The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-26

The facts and statistics be showed that the circumstances
which led 10 the crash which fell upon the West Indies
tie absenteeism Of the great propretors the ahessness
of agents. the heavy mortgages which had eaten up the
profits OF III managed negro saves-bad made the Island
bankrupt producing appeals Parliament for salvation
before emancipation took place. and great ia 10 the
price Of sugar soon after rendered catastrophe un-
avoidable. He then summed up the actual condi-
ton OF the islands, and, after comparing the state
Of tbrgs when monopoly and slavery were
What, now, was tho resul.s The result was that, al
though labor was stu free. although trade was still free
orr rather he would say because labor because trade
free, the West Indies were nov rising TO pitch or
ahh and happiness unknown before. II would be i'm
possible for him to lay before the House the immense
assured Of by mercantile men; he found strongly se
forth in the reports OF the Governors Of the islands, which
used 70 be full q dismay, and were now bright with
sisted Of the saistcs furnished by the Board Of Trade
which showed that the imports and exports together OF
years ending with 1853 70 600 and in the four
years ending with 1857 70 EST 900 00oan increase Of
a 800 600 in four years-appAuse .and further that
list q similar statistics, he adds-Conadcring what mere
il was astonishing that their trade to and fro
should now actually amount annually to 000 that
was the value Of their commodities IN the year 1851"
Sr B. Lyon Colonial Secretary during the last
sion, and confirmed the views taken by Mr. Buxton,
and enlarged moro fully on the causes Of the disorders OF
But be added additional fact which shows up another
mposure used here to prevent the sending Of free emil
grants into the tropics He thus addressed himself to Mr.
The honorable gentleman says the prosperity
of the colonies does not arise from immigration alone.
No. but where immigration has been continued prosperity
has followed. Sir, the experiment Of cooie immigration
was first tried in Maurus in l8S5-37. It then
menced by the planters private importers OF labor
Abuses arose'he immigration was suspended 10 lS3s IN
lS43 the government took into their hands, and by the
government has since been conducted Now hear the
result Since the experiment there have been introduced
into this colony 00 out OF these In 1856 as many as
l242el we're still residents. The effect on the pro-
duoe Of the colony was-the sugar crop in 1874
5S oS pounds That has Ss' srsn na
on produce What has been the effect the immigrant po
puaonS Three fourhs Of those immigrants who returned
10 India the end Of three five years brought back
with them from 500 to 200 rupees each and Sir G. An
derson who had formerly been distinguished judge in
India in $780, reported his opinion in these words
immigrants as aborng population perhaps whore
in the world in such favorable circumstances Sir B.
Lyon then shows by the statistics that this state OF things
snip which LETT British Guiana last year S5s) 277 coolies
paid into the hands Of the authorities for Transmission 70
India than and he describes many ~ going
home with an independence. Mr.. Labouchere the wing
Colonial Secretary who preceded Sir B. Lytton,
to express almost complete coincidence with the right
Confidence Confidence IN the success Of free labor and the
immigration Of free laborers" He added, "the gene
raj state Of the West Indies a. this moment CHE
testimony of these three eminent British statesmen
who seek to propagate and perpetuate slavery cloud
applause.) The active policy OF the republicans IN re-
gard to slavery consists entirely Of laws e enlarge
the powers Of slaveholdefs, and slave States to
enfranchise and rid themselves Of the human beings
whose fate ia In their hands (Applause) Now
the master may wish to relieve himself and his State
of the incubus Of such dependents. he has not the
power the State laws forbid H. unless he provides home
elsewhere: there s no attsnabe spot on which no can
place them Is the wish Of the slave States to
the freed negroes the difficulty renders II imposs
BILE uness they are made slaves again or driven out
republicans propose 70 bring the means Of the Union to
deliver owners Of slaves from this embarrassment and
to give them and their States the option Of slavery or no
numbers of FREQ white citizens oppressed and deprived OF
employment and the means Of support for their families,
give homes in the national domain 70 these suffering per-
and their families (Cheers The republicans propose
new avenues o. ava
noxious TO them, well a. to the Northern States their
presence but by their removal 70 the tropics converting
them TO usefulness to their native States and the nation
(ApplauDe.) On all the points ON which the republ-
leans and the national democracy differ, the 60
s os ~ Dss gsee %
the power Of Congress over Territories denied,
spd The entree given % slavery everywhere BY
anoe made 70 Tho csoal authority The obstacle TO
these usurpatous IL In the nature of things. Slavery
cannot compete with free labor In progress this CONT
nent. (Applause.) 1t is not the creed Of the re-
viii Of Provdence that arrests the ruin this con-
tinent, and is in defiance Of Providence that the
Union 10 to be broken up and the continent 10 TO
their courses, and the CUT stream 70 be turned
round somewhere about Cape Hatteras. Uaughter.)
republican party has done nohns to A. JUSTIFY
the South in resorting TO such . desperate remedy.
They have held the power in single department
the government and cannot be made responsible for
Of n acts On the contrary, all in body admit that the
crime to which is bring down this terrible vs
President by majority Of the nations sufages in con
formity with the constitution (Slight applause) There
is a great body Of people In the South who think
fha afSr marty hao hnns,
its policy and in its selection of Presidents Of late
years, and who deem II a very extreme measure
ton itself becsuse ii has provided that the MAORI
y Of the people may exert the Of choosing another
man and other measures, If they think the public good
sprung up In the South, resolved to oppose TO the
bitter end the indicated scheme of Southern ultra poll
cians This opposition party has issued its expose after
consulting together conventions held in Kentucky,
Tennessee and under the auspices Of one Of
Kentuciys first born sonsher oldest and abest sates
mites Of his native State and Of the nation, one,
which, estimated by the worth OF s late incumbens,
refer in It's opening states that Mr. Clay, in the Last
speech he made and which he invited TO deliver
TO the Kentucky Legislature, left a. Legacy 70 his friends
the formation Of Union party, In which all parties diff
ering Union quesons but loving the Union should
merge their differences to support the constitution in the
very point which the sunionists propose assa
1.-THE election Of chief magistrate in opposition to their
schemes Twill here let the paper speak for me; the
thor has shown that there existed conspiracy among the
ration Of President, had been chosen the last
election in opposition to them He adds One Of their
Chiefs Governor Wise In publicly developing the scheme
and the means Of carrying out spoke Of national civil
what they would inevitably have 70 encounter
that was not what he most deprecated 1t was the
'neighborhood civil war;, he termed IT, which they
would have to carry on with the fifty thousand
Unionists of Virginia that he deplored. That it
was which gave him pain TO contemplate To meet the
exgepcy Of this double warfare TO provide adequate
force against their external and internal foes he said they
would arm their slaves. think gentlemen viii re-
member that certain individual worthy OF death
who attempted TO own slaves (IAnghterJ Another
Of their leaders, Senator Clingman, in . published
letter, said they meant 80 put down the opposi-
ton f Union mon in North Carolina by the sswiit
attention Of vigilance committees that ID, by organized
assassination. "Consider these appliances
neghborhood civil war TO bel carried on with
the aid Of armed slavesi The large shareholders
Of Virginia 70 their negroes against their poorer fel
low citizens 10 arm negro slaves, and ncte them 10
taste Of white men and women's blood. Once tasted
when would their thirst have been sakedf What would
bave been the result Of such neighborhood civil war;
Virgnia would have been visited by general massacre
and desoaton Or take the North Caronians plan for
putting down opposition. The murder Of thousands of