The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-07-17
THE BRITISH BARTNH IN THE INDIES.

emancipation Address Of Edward Il. Tn
asrh1li, the English Agent-Christianity
/ ~an the Indian Muttny-The Emanct-
| patton MISREPRESENTATION OF the West
Indies-Ths Observations OF . British
Phiianrhropist In Jamatea-His Well
come by the New York Clergy.
Edward Beanie Underhll, Esl., Of London, Foreign Sc
cretary OF the English General (aptst Missionary So
ciey is in this city, on his way home from the West
indies and by invitation yesterday forenoon addressed
meeting Of the clergy of New York and vicinity and
other persons at the rooms Of the Baptist Bible Unon in
Broome street. He has been four five years engaged
officially in visiting the missions Of his denomination in
India Cyon Burmah and the West indies and the object
Of the meeting TO hear from him account of the
state OF those missions Some forty or fifty clergymen
were present (among them Rev. +. o. Nellson who was
lately bsnshed from swedcn), and about an equal num-
| Der of ladies.
Pew DR. GILLETTE presided over the meeting AMER the
singing Of hymn and prayer by Rev DR.. Webb Of New
Brunswick the missionary agent introduced. He is
plump well conditioned man, thirty i've or forty years
rather dscursive in his style Of speaking and has
peculiar English habit Of misusing and nogcctng the letter
in his pronunciation.
Mr. UspRmL In the FIRST part Of his remarks treated
e the missions in Asia and the E, Indes the character
Of the natives the mode Of conducting missionary opera
80 and shef success the progress Of sAns.'ins the
&C me n sa hn a. Uora snS
steal depravity Some Of their "punds," scholars he
sad in the habit Of reading the writings Of Theodore
Parker aud others OF his school, and many atheists
but hvosaoly disposed towards Christianity. Mr. Under
hill next spoke Of his late visit 70 the West India mis-
siousres He hsd visited Trinidad ayt and other West
India islands and had spent five months in the island of
Jamaica and was prepared to deny utterly the state
ments that either emancipation missionary abors ad
proved failure in that island lie had LEFT Jamaica and the
other West India islands with glad heart and thankful
to God. All the islands under British government
sns sort than Europe itself There were more church
members in proportion to the population and greater
attendance public worship he thought than in any
other part Of tho world. In some islands not single
family accustomed to being absent from public
ship and the true TO a great extent of the
island Of Jamaica There could not be less than $50 900
people in Jamaica under direct religious instruction At
the eastern end Of the island there few missionaries
and scattered population and, therefore, less geu.ra
religious instruction. but in st. Annes bay there
not two per cent Of the inhabitants but In this hact
OF attending worship. There had been, it true
emancipation, considerable falling away from the
churches; but that attributable to natural
The excitement attending emancipation itself had died
down. and there had been time for the publication Of the
churches and the exercise Of due discipline Before oman
cpaon the people great deal in the hands Of the
church leaders who were mostly uneducaed iliiterate
The missionaries could rarely visit the plantations,
except by stealth But since emancipation the leaders
instructed and directly under the eyes of
the missionaries who were better acquainted with the
people, and altogether the churches thorough
y the hands Of their pastors. Hence, there had
rally been considerable dminution. Again. the
custances Of the country we're such as TO constaIn
great numbers TO leave their original locations and
to mountainous regions ia search Of cheap lands.
AS yet there not sufficient agencies for reaching
these wanderers Another of decrease was TO be
sNd in the elimination Of the ministry. His society
had aided them but very little, merely furnishing them
done eycrythns else at their own cost There had been
Ike diriauton in the Wesleyan body The great want
AZ Jamaica at this time more ministers, for each
man hai average than churches under his
Tere had been since emancipation great improve
men s. education. In parish at that time there werc
out Of five thousand uhabitanS only four who
could read and write and three or tour years ago there
the eighteen hundred who could read
The pcy Of this people, though not as refined and high
toned as English and American churches was sincere,
port their pastors build and repair their chapcs aud
| main,an their schools. Government made but very
limited appropriations for the schools and the people,
else The anagonsm of the planting interest 70 their
education had been very great till within few years,
when there had been great change In the character OF
that interest, and attempts made to improve tho
moral and spiritual condition OF the people. Taking the
whole Islands together they had to sing songs Of
grateful praise 10 their Father in Heaven blessings
! upon their Missionary efforts. He came now to
The more secular and political aspect OF the
withn few days, that West Indian emancipation
dead failure and that had been urged a. an apology
for the Of emancipation this country ard
argument in favor OF keeping the black peeps
thscountry and Cuba in slavery altogether. The ct
did not bear out the argument, and be w prepared 70
say that II utterly fallscous In the drst place
emancipation not the cause Of the deciae OF Jamaica
England receives from its West India possessions
much sugar she eyer did. 1t Is true she does not
ceivc bali much from Jamaica, but the other ssnds
great prosperity ID Trinidad aud other Islands, IT. them
emancipation produced such sad results in jamaica how
Will you account tor opposite results In the other
isands which we're uuder the inducnccss The fac
was that neither the In the the decay
the other bad anything TO do with emancipation Both
| prosperity ara decay were attributable mainly 10
good and bad management. In Jamaica there had
been want o. s.M ana en,erprse, anu
| The West India islands u was well known, enjoyed a
high protective duty on sugar even down TO the emsnci
patton. The usual results followed In Jamaica, to witt
unrkui cultivation and dependence upon the margin OF
protection for profits ps,esd Of good management pro
ducton and manufacture. But the withdrawal Of pro-
lection would not account for the decay Of jamaica for
proicction lost 20 the other Islands At the time,
and yet bey ali continued prosper Therefore neither
emancipation nor the OF protection would
for commercial decay in Jamaica, which upqueston-
able The jamaica planters complained they could
get aborers and said the people idle and
less He sorry, but he could not confirm that story
Cor the planters The fault did not lie with the people
There not taking thing with another, more in
dustrous pcasantry on cE tDtn the pcasantry OF ia
maica. me value g tho produce cultivated by
millkns per 10 fact, they produced
whatever was produced rad that did not prove
| dleness. lie had crossed tho country three times,
! had travelled n thousand miles in IT, bad gone into
their cottages In the Interior had talked with them In all
Portable houses abundance OF cotning a people well
dressed houses hed with good furniture, and all the
evidence q an approach 10 higher CIVILIZATION He had
seen who pcnnilcfs at the u ne of emancipa-
ton possessed Of large property. He knew OF
buying six hundred acres Of land. and Of another
renting two thousand acres One white planter told him
he had properties and black managed each
OF them and said be would rather have black for
honesty and integrity than the usual order Of white
employs cd in these av6tAtons There idle wicked
people and badness in the towns. but not so much "A In
New York London; and in the mountains they would
find orderly well conducted aud decent pcaantry as
anywhere the world. The population engaged in sugar
| cultivation not The best and he thought that
businers not favorable morally and spiritually, TO
the people For their doubted whether that
| culture should be encouraged Before emancipation a
majority q thor church leaders were managers aud
ry on the estates now that class did constitute
, teIll Part Of their number People OF the best class
would engage IN sugar cultivation, when they could
max, uIou their own extensive holding, Tor
thcr, were IN the island CITY sixty thousand black
/ frceh0dtrr. Almost the only csss who were accumu-
laiirr tsoty the negroes Tho planters could not
get labor or the that the people could make more
al hos AID large labor emigration into Jamaica would
be peresssry extend sugar cultivation Emanci-
patton, tncn, whether regarded from religious or
social d ut & view had not been failure. rhe planters
wcrc NOT what they u.rd be- aud ~ the pcnfo II bad