New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-11
LAWYERs woOD AND OCoNoR


Ezpsenes has shown tbot the black rsoe accustomed .
ssseIy w BOT wo when free especially in e@@ie which
su4-GEOEgE woOD.
This ia bis opinion, which he means his felow-men
Shall regard a. authority.
Negroe alone end unsided BY the guardianship Of smother
le cannlt sustain civilized social CoSoR
This is his opinion. Abiuring he does, all aathor-
iies lac can hardly hope that other men viii treat II
IS authority. Both these lawyers give forth these
cpfniobass though they sustained 10y facts Now
lam no LAWYER bat only plain matteroffact man,
d propose 70 set forth actual facts developed by
he outorkings Of emancipation in the West Indies
where tie experiment has actually been made, and
the results are fairly chronicle1, The statements are
taken from " Martins British Colonies"
/. H1af ,eas the condition Of the island before
emancipation?
Fro 1873 to 1882 there were twenty-eght insurreo-
tens and oOnspraces In which there was great Toss Of
BE snd property In 176O sixty whites and one thou
sand negroes pershed and over one million Of dollars
Of property was destroyed.
Before emancipation the state Of society was dread
fu Intemperance licentouness, and laudanun-drink-
bV prevailed These produced their legitimate results.
Prom statement made n the House of Assembly in
l92 il appeared tbs 77 estates were sold in twenty
yas for payment of debtsi IS estates were thrown up
snj 90 were still in the hands of creditors.
Prem return made to the Provost Msrshal ii
sppeared that sO.l2l executions, amounting TO
&22 7S6, more than $l10,O0OOOO, were lodged in
biz Office IN twenty years.
The depreciation Of property went on and II was
proved that in jamaica with 800 900 slaves the plant
ems were not able to cultivate sugar and coffee profit
ably or extensively. From 1913 TO 1881 il wss
serted " that commerce was deserving the shores Of
Jamaica" that signs Of prosperity no longer
"PeToeptibe and universal gloom lowered sround,
"snd ruin in the most dreadful shape and to all APP
"pearance inevitable advanced with rapid strides
At frs ii was thought that it would be dangerous to
emsnpate 800 900 slaves where there were but 1900
whites-that they were unfit for immediate freedom
that state Of probation fixed at six years would be
necessary. This proved failure not outstanding the
barbarous punshmsnts inflicted on the apprentices and
WAS given up in yesrs.
Thus after being an European colony 800 years. 1873
Of which English one, and receiving until the Last
20 years increasing and unlimited supplies Of slave
labor not one fourth Of the 100000 acres contained
the Isnd had been brought under cultivation; and
the state of the chief towns was disgrace TO a civil
ized world.
It could hardly be expected that the depopulsting
effects Of nearly two centuries Of slavery could be OBJ
liberated in few years
III. Ip1at IS the condition after emancipation
Under freedom internal strife has wholly ceased, and
no part Of the world is more peaceable.
Eighteen years ago the colored proprieors Of land
were Only few and seEttored. Now there are con-
tdeIably more than 1000 eoloTed freehOders work
ing hard living thrifty and accommodating real capital
The negroes tod their property with assiduity,
and when employed on task-work their efforts
traoFdinary Fifteen ceored citizens, three of pure
negro blood have been elected Representatives in the
House Of Assembly, and one is Prime Minister Of the
leland.