Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-07-24


bers in proportion as It's progress is glorious
If the object Is the good of the greatest num-
Der, are we sure that our civilization is any
improvement on the savage state Are we
sure that the lazy savage has not the true
philosophy
By taking consequences into the account
at all, Abolitionists concede away all the
ground they have to stand on. If the African
has not right to be savage, he has not the
right to be free in his own country. If he
has not the right TO refuse to work, and lei
the Jamaican sugar estates go back to bush,
then emancipation had no ground to stand on
That this has been the result Of emancipation
In Jamaica is admitted by all, however they
lay the blame. This is a consequence that
Abolitionists must face, in this as in future
cases. and if emancipation will not stand this,
il must succumb.
Why should free negro work in Jamaica,
where all the necessary means of subsistence
are ready to his hands? In his new work on
The West indies and the Spanish Mdn, Mr.
Anthony Trolope thus describes the life oi
the emancipated negro:
"He lies under the mango tree, and eats the
luscious fruit in the sun; sends his black
urchin up for bread-fruit, and behold the
family table is spread. He pierces the cocoa
nut, and lol there is his beverage. He lies
on the grass surrounded by oranges, bananas
and pine-apples."
This kind of life does not produce Sugar
for export, nor what we call civilization. On
the contrary cultivation which depends on
such race can not defend the plantations
against tropical fertility, and must inevitably
be conquered by the wilderness. But what
right have the emancipationists to say that
the negro shall want fine clothes, or any
clothes, and good houses, and imported lux
uries, i'll order that he may 90 to work and
earn money TO buy them, and thereby export
Sugar? II is not likely that white people
would work under the same circumstances.
Tropical countries, whose cultivation de-
pends on free Africans, who can find album
dant means of subsistence in the spontaneous
fruits of the earth, must relapse into the con-
dition of Africa No statistics are necessary
to show that, nor eau any statistics get
around the fact. If this fact is fatal to eman-
cipation, then the emancipation question is
settled. We refer our readers to the book of
Mr.. Trollope, which may be had of Rickey,
Mallory & Co., of this city, for information
which will explain the conflict of statistics in
regard to the effect of emancipation.
In Demerara, Coolie laborers have been
freely imported; we think more in number
than the negroes who were emancipated
The product of sugar has therefore increased
consequently, Demarara figures in the Aboli'
ton statistics to show the benefits of eman-
cipation, on the sugar export
Barbados has held its own. 1t is about
twenty miles long and twelve broad, entirely
fat, and was every inch under cultivation by
prosperous planters, with abundance o
slaves, when emancipation took place. Their
was no squatting ground for the negroes, ant
they had TO work or starve. Consequently
labor is plenty, wages very low, the sugai
export is kept up, and Barbados is statistica
evidence of the triumph of emancipation.
Jamaica, the most extensive Of the British
West Indies, and the most beautiful, is th,
most diversified in its surface; and has wild,
extent of unredeemed land. In Jamaica anC
some other Islands, the emancipated negroe
could squat where they pleased and live a
the paragraph above quoted describes in al
African paradise, and in the nearest approach
to any paradise that hasyet been made. Con
sequently Jamaica, where the negro wasleft Il
his own natural conditions, is not evidence o
the triumph of emancipation, according t.
the Abolition idea; but it is true evidence o
the operation of emancipation in all tropica
countries where the negro will be left to til,
free exercise of his own nature.