Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-02-23


they have never numbered more than twelve or
f,urteen thousand, they have maintained posses
sion for more than a century, often repusing in
vasions by the Spanlrds during their domination,
and by the whole force of Guatemala since her in
dependence, and have at last succeeded in giving
Great Britain secure foothold for her powers III
Central America to which the weaker nations
around will grayitate with the same certainty
that brings falling cliace to the ground. What
would our Government give for such footho.d
upon that thoroushfare of nations, across which
the gold Of California Iours itselupon us, exposed,
together with the lives of citizens, to its many
haElrd-l And what has become of the Monroe
doctrine, with which certain people have been be-
guilng this credulous nation, while these Jamlica
negroes made this sold conquest for the Brit
ish Cr0wnl Set this service OLA reyiled and des
pissed race to their most gracious mistress, Queen
Victoria, against the performances of our flbuser
Presidents. and which will outweigh! Consider
with what poor success one of these last went out
to the bembardment Of GrcytoD to disposscss these
same jamaica negroes, who have there made an
other lodgment for the power of England, in the
name Of Mosquito king. The present Chief Ex
ecutive refused to ratify the treaty by which the
British agreed to surrender the occupation OF the
Bay Islands and Mosquito coast in conformity with
the Clayton Bulwer treaty, because the convention
by which this surrender Sas made provided 'that
Slauery shall not at any time hereafter be permit
leu u cAl5 IL ScSltlo tuil
demanded guaranty against the cnslayement of
her negro subjects, who had been planted along
the coast and along the islands. from the Belize to
Grcytown, an | Republican Americans prefers that
the coast and islands should remain in their pos
session rather than admit such 4 guaranty. Can
any other reason be imagined for such conduct,
Nc.pt that the power which controls this Govern
ment locks to the acquisition of these regions for
the purpose of subjectng them to SLAVERY? Gen
w 1lSpr w invitai IA Nicara aytla and rappiy al
there with open arms. He nlig'l have maintained
himself, and established our power and influence
in that country permanently, but he was induced 10
issue decree establishing Slavery by
of assistance from the dominant pow in this coun-
try The native inhabitants Of Nicaragua, OF
whom nine -tenths belong to the c0lored races,
took the ALARM very justly apprehending that they
would be re enslavcd fthat system again took root
and they united to expell Walker, whom they had
so recently invited among them It's by such acts
that We have brought home to these people the
ku )wledge ofour intention to enslave them. The
British have s.u liousy and tcntatiousy proclaim.
cd and rractced policy ex lctly the reverse. The
mass of the people being negroes and mestizos and
afraid OF being made the subject OF Slavery, have
learned to detcst this Government, 81 hist the few
remaining families of pure Spanish blood are Mon
archsts, and naturally turn to Europe rather than
America. Ii is curious enough that the Liberal or
Democratic party of most ofthe Spanish American
States is composed OF the mixed boods and colored
races. it is what would be lled the free-neTo
prty in this country. They are not very profound
i'll their political philosophy and have discover
ed that Slavery is the foundation of Liberty, and
hence they are avcrsc to the schemes of their fel
low Democrats in the United States, to regener
ate them by reducing them to Slavery. Let them
hold fast to that faith, and the world is not without
hope for them yet. 1t is the fair star of mornings
which ushers bright and glorious day.
1t is the fashion in some quarters o deride all
attempts to improve the condition of the negro race,
and thus justify the cupirty which enslaves them
by procLim:ns them unfit for every higher condi
ton. No Imoles are oftcner cited to uplo d this
theory than the condition of Cuba and Hayti i
am content to stand or fall BY these examples.
find in work published under the authority of
Congress, upon the subject of our commercial re
lations, (vo. |, p. 570.) the following remarkable
statement:
AmouE the countries with which thu United States have
commercial ntcrcourse. Hay holds the ninth rank
cts Tonnage All the State are more or interested in
rhc Hayfn trade. The Nor hcstern States find market
Northern Virgin a, Muyland Ohio, Indiana, ILLINOIS, and
Missouri FIR their satcl plIk Vermont New York, Mssa-
rhusetts Iusis and Ohio for tfeir sated bf philade
phia and Boston, North South Carolina Virginia and
kratucky for til, household furniture their rc and to-
hacro. The manufacturers If New England New York and
Hyti for ia 'r eh ap ton textures, aud successfully
pete with European manufacturers The official returns OF
S,O0O0oo imported ports Union
lsJ1 less by $50, than Hay The trade Of the Uni
ted States with h latter country Therefore profta
Bile thon with Mexico Indeed Am ran vessels generally
return in ballast from Mexican ports go other States
in search of freight, while in syti they always find
Ia 1851, the United States exported 10 Hay
ii gools valued S,a60t0 while the value sim
lar goods exported Cuba reach only s2jOo The sap
exported from the United States to the former country
(Hsy exceeded ,S2 pounds, the latter Cub,) only
3SJ,7is. Hayi Received from the United States in lS5i
eight times as much -four as Cuba and six times as much
saltcd pork.
When We reflect that Hayti has little more than
one third the population of Cuba and that the Uni
ted States have never had commercial or any 9TH
er kind of treaty to encourage protect our COM
mercc with that people, these results absolute
! IL astounding, and refute in the most conclusive
the idle stories of the wrctchcdness, power
/ ty, and squal,r of the Haytens. Whence comes
! their ability to m lintain such commerce, and
whence their means to take TIE large amount of
exports from the United States, exceeding so large
y all that we send TO the 100000 of Mexico, and
/ to Cuba? The simple facts which have read from
the official returns of commercial intercourse
stamp with unering certainty the fallacy of the
partial and prcjudced statements Of the apologists
of Slavery.
/ In like manner we have hid il dipned into our
for nearly quarter of century, that the Brit
sh West India Islands have been ruined by cman-
c'pation The facts of the case, taken from au-
thcntc sources so far from bearing out this theory,
prove precisely the reverse. 1t is beyond dispute
that their ruin had already been accomplished by
Slavery; that almost every estate in those islands
was m,rtgiged for what it w.,s worth, and great
many for much more, before the act of emancipa-
ton; that in 1880, few years prior to emancipa-
ton, petitions presented to the British Parlia
ment, describing the condition of these colonies in
the darkest colors, and earnestly soliciting relief;
that the production of sugar in the island of Jama
CT alone, for the ten years ending with 1890, was
2Jl,S hogsheads less thin for the ten years end
ing with 1920. At this period the sugar planters of
! the British West Indies enjoyed monopoly of the
British mlrkcts, the sugars of the British colonies
Of India AMI Singapore not even being allowed to
compete. This monopoly AMI the high price of
sugar stimulated the production TO such degree
that the slaves were acullly worked to death; and
whilst the free negroes were steadily increasing,
the slaves were dying off at rate which was des-
cibel at the time as appalling" In eleven out
of eighteen of these islands lby statement in the
Edia5ury Reriew for April 1872 the slaves de-
creased ain twelve years no less than g., ,2l9 name
ly, from $50 l9f to 497 ,975.'' Then came en-
cpatioa, an in the next twelve years there wasan
increase of 81, ,966 in the Number of negroes of but
ten colonies There is possible doubt about
these facts, taken as they are from the population
returns made to Parliament, for they are corrobor-
strongest advocates for whathe delicately delomi-
mates "comoulsory labor" He declares that the
stme state of facts exists in Cubi, where the
average life OF slave is seven years, and nothing
prevents the extinction of Slavery in that island BY