The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-02-09
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50 TITS took upon which Ne ccumsnted seve
RI Wss1s Aeo, seems 70 have created quite 1
ssasastoa In EasiAnd. The London Tsmes hav.
Ing 1svosea asariy = 0ruadside 70 . review q
~ contents. We hope 70 zee II circuiasinl
hrgsly throughout the country, Ia the Norsh
. we'll - the Soath. If.Aere be any conserv.
atisn lsfs In the flrst.n&med section, II canno
bat b confirmed BY the striking view which
II presents Of abolitionism, not In the alb
stact - dream Of The sickiy philanthropist
bat In IL practical workings-in its inhuenc.
apoa he country on which il has been In.
atcsed-in ia operations upon society and the
lava By which II 10 governed-in It's effects
upon Grade, industry. and civilization itself-
CONSERVATIVE Northern men, who cannot
leave OF pfiing up their dollars long enough
to vote, and have therefore left the political
power In the hands Of q fanaticai gang, can
there see TO what their neglect IL fast tending.
They can see to what condition the South
era States must necessarily Be reduced, ii abo.
litlonism should ever be able to carry out its
views, and although they may have NO real
sympathy for the Southern people, they will,
nsvsrtheless, be affected by the commercial
aspect Of the affair. II the whole South
ouOuA0 US S0I00tC1leCV-tA0t tuIucu lUtO
sQuatting ground for lazy negroes-what be-
comes Of their three per cent. n month!
In the Island Of Jamaica there are $1,000
white Inhabitants, $1,000 colored Tor mulat.
toes) and within fraction of three hundred
thousand negroes. Suffrage there being uni.
versal, Of course the whole political power is
in the hands Of this last-named class. No
white man would 90 to the Legislature 10
take his eeat along side Of person who was
his own slave but short time ago. Conse-
qoently the Planter class Is utterly prescribed
They have no voice in the making of the laws.
and although they own all the cultivated land
In the island, they hold it by the frailest pos
slble tenure. All the sQuatting is done upon
their property. The negro will not squat
upon government land, because it is not cult.
vated. He takes the BEST he can find belong
ing to private individuals, and upon that he
sets himself down. He becomes tenant ut will
after a very different fashion from the same
person as described by Lord COKE The will
in question is his own will, not that of his
landlord. He squats where he pleases, stays
As long rs he pleases, and pays NO rent. The
bananas, oranges, cocoanuts and yams, that
grow spon taneousiy around him, were origin
ally planted there by the owner of the SOIL
They are not, therefore, the products OF nature
altogether, any more than a pear or an apple
tres is in this country. Yet as such they are
treated by the squatting negro. lie pays no
more for them than if he had found them wild
in the woods. Nay, more: He cannot be in
duced, by love or money, to assist the man
upon whose land he is squatting in securing
his crop, upon which the vefy bread he eats
is depending. He not only lives 1T free quar-
tiers, paying nothing for his fare and subsist-
ence but neither will he labor on the estate.
nor is it possible 10 remove him by any pro-
cess known to the law Of that ebony Paradise
We venture to say that NO government this
side Of Constantinople ever perpelrated such
m atrOclous outrage upon large body Of lis
own subjects, as did the British Government
when 1t abolished slavery in the West Indies.
To use the language Of the London Times, it
acted ON the principle that the world was
made for Sambo, and that nobody else was
worthy of consideration.
It will be recollected that Hon. F. p. BLAIR.
in his lecture delivered lately in New York.
pointed exultingly to the expose made by Sir
e. BuLwKR in Parliament a few years ago, by
which 1t appears that the exports Of the West |
Indies have largely increased since the aboli-
ton of slavery. In commenting upon this |
lecture, we stated that ii such were the fact
the increase was obtained somewhere else |
than Jamaica, for tina: island had fallen of |
from i5O,OOO hhds. year to p, 900. We now |
Mud the true secret. The excess came from
the other islands from Bar badoes where ne. |
groes cannot So uat, but must work or starye
from the Island Of Trinidad, and from uiana,
on tue Continent It has been asked, if the
facilities afforded for squatting in Jamaica
caused the negroes to refuse work. why it did |
mot have the same effect in Trinidad and |
Guiana The London Times explains the |
matter fully. Trinidad and G uiana took time
by the fore. lock, and began to import Coolies
In large numbers as soon as slavery was
abolished. They were thus enabled to subs,i.
tute the labor destroyed, and thereby ward off
he blow, which must have crushed them had
/ fallen with full force. Into Jamaica thu
HACK legislature will not allow this species
u labor 70 come. So far from the abolition of
slavery being blessing in the sense the En-
Ilish abolitionists pretend it has been, 1t would
AVE reduced Trinidad and Guiana to the con.
iition Of Jamaica, but for the precautions al
uded to. Mr.. BLAIR ought to have explained
hat II any portion Of the West Indies is pros.
,srons, it 10 not the fault Of his friends the En-
fish abolitionists They arc striving with all
heir might to cut up this prosperity BY the
coss, raising the same clamor against the
Joolis system that they once raised against
lavsry. When they shall have succeeded in |
educapg both TO the condition of Jamaica. il :
: TO b hoped they will be satisfied
1t II remarkable that the London Times
lnderstands the negro character fully as well !
. any person in the United States or the West !
ndies. 1t describes him as "a lazy animal,
Without any foresight. and therefore requiring
0 b led and compelled-he is decidedly in q
ssior, very little raised above mere ANIMAL
~ negro. adds the Times, sis void of self
Dltance. and 10 the creature Of circumstance I
,arcely fitted TO take care Of himself-has no .
ne for to.morrow--has no desire for pros
sfitpstrong enough to induce him to labor b
ves from hand 70 mouth. In Jamaica, eman- {
patton has thrown enormous tracts Of land =
1t Of cultivation, and ON these tho negro i.
laats, getting all he wants with very little
onble, asS SHAKING n The most resslxse fasAios
- - sAs ssrags state"
PROPOSED vIsfr OF STATE LxoIsLAruR.s Ii
lestsr was received Tuesday by John W.
arrett, Esq, President of the Baltimore and g
lio Railroad, from . prominent citizen of :"
,ston, inquiring whether he would give free 7
'ssaGe ON the Washington Branch Of the road Of
r the Legislatures Of Virginia and Maryland.
esss thsy shonid pay visit to BOSTON, tt
20 latter says: II
ada. making stlniiar request, and nave re-. ~
fved reply from 8. n. felton. Eso Presi. TO
~ g - Fhl!adelphia apd Baltimore Rail.
ss s!'ns 1ee Are We Of b. ROAD provided ia
sose 70 any Of ~ eompaniss We were ss.
- ~ leAdlng msmbers Of the IeetsIatnre | r,