The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-06

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In another page we publish remarkable
article from the London Times of the 9Th of
January being review of book just written
on the West Indies, from personal observation,
by Mr.. Trollope, an English gentleman. The
Times gives the substance of the work, with its
own comments, which are highly edifying and
appropriate at this perilous crisis of the Anne
rican anti-slavery crusade. We commend the
article to the careful study of the abolihonists
and republicans who are laboring so hard to
bring about the same ruin upon the Southern
States, and through them on the whole coun-
try, which the English abolitionists, headed by
Clarkson and Wilberforce, have succeeded In
accomplishing for the British West India
Islands by means of emancipation.
By negro slave labor, under the direction of
the white man, these islands were in highly
prosperous condition, when, in an evil hour,
the English Parliament, succumbing to the
fanatcal agitation of the time, passed an act
in the year 1884 abolishing slavery in the Bri-
fish colonies, substituting system Of APP
premiership, which lasted for four years, and
setting the negroes completely and universally
free in 1888. In compensation to the planters
for the loss of their slaves sum of twenty
millions of pounds, one hundred millions OF
dollars, was voted by Parliament. And what
is the result of this wonderful British philan-
thropby, which, neglecting the white men per-
ishing under its eyes at home, seeks happy
blacks in distant islands on which to lavish its
benevolence, just as it has done in recent years
in the case of American negro slaves whose
condition will compare favorably with ma
jority of the white population of the United
Kingdom?"
With great truth the Times observes that
I" floods of pathetic eloquence and long years
OF Parliamentary struggling taught the English
people to imagine that the world was made for
Sambo." But what is the conclusion at which
the Times now arrives, after trial of twenty
FIVE years of emancipation? "The negro is a
lazy animal without any foresight, and there
fore requiring to be led and compelled is
decidedly inferior, very little raised above
mere animal" He is 'void of selfreliance
and is the creature of circumstances scarcely
fitted to take care of himself-has no care for
to-morrow-has no desire for property strong
enough to induce him to labor-lives from
hand to mouth. In Jamaica emancipation has
thrown enormous tracts of land out Of cultiva-
ton, and on these the negro squats, getting all
that he wants with very little trouble, and sink
ing in the most resolute fashion back to the
savage state" In fact he gets without trouble
yams, the bread fruit, and cocoanut, oranges,
bananas and pineapples, lies in the sun and
luxuriates upon these delicious fruits. Why
should he work?
The natural result is that all the islands have
been nearly ruined, with the exception of Bar
BADGES, which owes its safety to the fact that it
is the oldest of the British settlements, is
highly cultivated and well peopled, and there
is no room, therefore, for the negroes to squat.
They must work for food or perish. ut alone"
we are told, 'of all the West Indian islands, has
kept its head above water" The evil day of
Guiana and Trinidad has been deferred by
the importation Of coolies from India and
China, who are, to all intents and purposes,
slaves, the only difference between their condi-
ton and that of the negroes being that their SER
vitude is voluntary, by contract, and of limited
duration. Jamaica though the largest and finest
of all the British West India islands, has sui.
fered most from emancipation, for two reasons:
first, because of its extensive territory for ne
groes to squat on; and secondly, because it has
not introduced the coolies to supply the place
of negro labor. In Barbados, too, the colored
man has no vote; in Trinidad and Guiana there
is no House of Commons, or rather, House of
Niggers, and the planters can manage their
own affairs 30 as to obtain supply of Coolie
labor. But such is the degradation to which
Jamaica is reduced, that the negro and colored
population being twenty-five times greater
than the white, the ascendancy is complete;
the negro not only votes, but elects his own
race to the House of Assembly, and votes away
the white mans substance in taxes, and puts
black and colored men in the Offices of the 60
vernment. As Mr.. Trollope sat in tavern one
day, seeking shelter from the heat Of the sun,
he heard pure black say to his fellow negro,
with considerable dignity, II shall bring for
ward motion on de subject in de House to-
morrow" on which the Times facetiously re-
marks:-"It is de hon'ble gen'l'men who talk
in dis way dat rule de fortunes of Jamaica"
And what is the result? That "the common
fare of the planter is salt fish and rum and
water" and that "half the sugar estates, and
more than half the coffee plantations, have gone
back into state of bush, and great portion
of those who are now growing canes in Jamaica
are persons who have lately bought the estates
for the value of the copper in the sugar boilers
and of the metal in the rum stills"
What will Stafford House and Exeter Hall
say to this? Yet it is but the uniform testimony
of all other intelligent and candid writer's, in
GLIDING abolitionists, who have visited Jamaica,