The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-01-26

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THUA1oAY MORNING. JAN. - ,rHO
The West lnaiss and Canada,
IT, oscAys or 70 speak more correctly. the
deooaAasoA tAax sprsads over the Island Of Js.
naiea, No. advsrssd ~ BY u In former ar.
tiela BY svseybody II 10 attributed 10 the
sans sAoss. TAs negroes cannot - tnducsd
- Wosk for hove or money. Tho idea which
tAey poessss about fresdom here 40 well A. in
CanaAA and the Wsst Indies Is, that II Is
a absolution from the primal curse, and
tAat cusss ihsy consider the greatest Of all
They cannot - indscsd by any amount OF
wages 70 Keep steadily at work. Ttsy prefer
70 squa, upon the land Belonging to the estates
ON which they once wrought as slaves, and
dragging out m existence scarcely one degree
higher than that Of . Illuminating Quadruped
Give one ~ them q patch Of ground upon
which he can raise few pumpkins and po-
tat0es, AID he 10 satislled. The vast quantity
Of idle land In the leland, belonging In part to
The Grown, and in part 10 private propric-
tors, greatly encourages this disposition. 1t
10 remarkable that Ia the leland vi Bar bad oes s,
where there - No idle land, the same system.
anc i0tsuess ON the part OF the. blacks does not
exlst There they are compelled to work or
snrve. A writer in Chambers Ed,n6xrgh
JssvsAi, commenting upon Mr.. TKoLLoPx .
book, admlts that the undue abundance OF
land in Jamaica IL the root OF the great evil
upder which it lies crushed 10 the earth
He thinks IL would BE- far better il the same
stats Of things existed that 10 to BE- found in
Barbadoes-that 10. II the whole island were
appropriated and cultivated TO tho last square
inch of soil. Then, he thinks, the negro would
be compelled to work or starve. In other
words, the voluntary system, SO far as the
African race 10 concerned, is q failure. They
must have . master, If they be expected to
work and thst m ster must be either starva-
ton Or q white owner. As to working from
The came motive that white man works-to
hestsr his condition that 10 fairly admitted to
b altogether out Of the question. 1t Is thing
which IL not to be expected. SIN jamaica
Dominica, ST. Lucia. and Grenada" says Mr..
TROLLoPx, "the negro, when emancipated,
could squat aud make himself happy but in
Barbados there was not an inch for him.
Whan emancipation came, there was no squat
ting for the poor Barbadian. He had still to
work and make sugar-work quite as hard As
when he was q slave. He had to do fha. Or
ssoyre; consequently labor has been abundant
in this island, and in this island only; and in
all the West Indian troubles it has kept its
head above water and made sugar respec tably;
not indeed showing much sugar genius, or 60
ing ahead in the way Of improvements, but
paying twenty shillings in the pound, sup
porting itself, and earning its bread decsntly
BY the sweat OF Its brow. There is
not q rood of waste land in Barbados. It GER
tainly is not the country for gypsy immigra-
ton. Indeed, I doubt whether there is even
room for pic-nic.''
That tho facility with which land can be
acquired 10 one reason why the Jamaica negro
cannot be induced to work, can hardly be
doubted. But this facility encourages another
propensity which is the PECULIARLY of the
Tace. Civilization, In a variety of shapes. has
been in contact with Africa for five thousand
years, yet it 10 as barbarous now as it was in
the days Of the PHARAOHs. There are evil
dsnces enough that the ancient Egyptians car
1ied their civilization to a considerable dis
tance up the Nile. But upon the borders of
Negroland 1t stopped. The PHARAoHs brought
slaves from that land, a. the PAsHAs do now.
They made wariixe expeditions into it. They
established commercial relations with it, but
they could not civilize it. The appear
ance Of the heroglyphics in the Southern
part Of Egypt show that the people had
BEEN at least partially civilized, and
that they had relapsed. into barbarism.-
So 1t has always been with the negro "a soon
a. he sustaining hand Of the white man has
been withdrawn. Hear what Mr.. TRoLLorE
has to say about him in Jamaica: Freed
from control and with plenty of land for
nothing. the negro has unbounded facility of
sQuatting, and has awaited himself OF it Free
ly. To .seede from ciri ization and become agair
sarags-as sarase as the la,cs Of the community
will permit-has been to his taste. Ibsliere thar
IL roxld altogether yetrogade, if left to his
taste"
A writer in CHAMBER's Journal thinks the
proper remedy would be to get the negroes off
the land which does not belong to them Ave!
but how is that to be done! Where is the
sta,eeman that can suggest sure plan for ac-
complishing that desirable object 1t would
10 far easier to uproot the primeval forests
that darken around the little spots which
they scra'ch for their potato grounds. No.
b dy doubts the power of Great Brirain.-
The q ueen can send an army to Jamaica and
exterminate the race, or she can capture the
wholeof them aud reduce them "a second time
t. slavery. But her whole excheq uer cannot
bribe 'hem to work, or her whole power, pxer-
CIotu III any lcoS ehc1 loIHAs COAfeI iutUl
u give up the custom of squatting. If there
b. any doubt about the fact, look at Canada,
and the proceedings of the runaway slaves
there. 1t is their custom to settle upon the
land Of any man, let him be who he may. If
he attempt u remove them by process Of law +,
he finds a whole negro pJpuiation in arms
agaims, him, aud he may be thankful if he escape
with his life, after having compromised by a
nominal sale Of hi. properly for one-fifth OF
lite value, upon credit, without the remotest
possibility of getting even that when the
the money becomes due. II the magnanimous
Parliament, or It's magnanimons constituents,
suffered In all this, 1t would be nothing more
than retributive justice. Men should pay for
their magnanImity themselves, not make 9th.
ers sni1er for II. But in this case the authors
Of the mischief suffer not at all. The innocent
planter In Jamaica pays the whole penalty
Even now, when he 10 attempting to reins tate
himself. and restore something of its former
value TO his property by the introduction Of
Coolies, he il violently opposed by party at
home. Aad on what groundl Why, it will
interfere with the prosperity Of the negroes.
They must have the monopoly of all the labor
In Jamaica, although they will not work.
Nobody 10 to be allowed the privilege of doing
what they positively refuse to do. They are to
Be protected by act of Parliament, in their lazy,
thriftlees, vagabond course OF life. The plan.
TER 10 70 have no alternative but to give up his