The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-01-30
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MONDAY MORNING. ........ JAN. "a leo.
Jamaica Again.
In HE lecture delivered before the Cooper
Institute on the 93th mat, Nj. FRANK BLAIR
endsavosed 70 prove that the British West In
dia Ialands exported three or four times ~
much, In vAlue, now, ~ they had done previ.
cusly = tAe abolition Of slavery In shst quar-.
Ter. II our comments upon that statement,
we endeavored to prove, from facts published
In TRoLLorH's tour, that the excess must have
coms nom Barbados, or other tslands IN
which there was no room for tho negro TO
scsss. aud mot, II any degrees whatever, from
JanalcA where unoccupied land Is abundant.
Two days aster the lecturei in question was de.
ltvered. The New York Times. Black Repub.
licsa sheet Of . very malignant typs; publish.
I'd 4 lr,ter nom one OF it, correspondents 40.
1oarning IT Kneston, In which this con turs
of ours Wa fully sustained. He tells the
Tsxses sAatin the year 1905, Jamaica exported
$4,000 hoksheads Of sugar, aud in 1859, 2sO&o
hossheAds. From 1851 70 $50. her annual ex-
porsastsa averaged i3A0oO hogsheads. From
that time IL began TO decline, and during the
Quently it averaged about q. 600, until the year
lsa5, the period OF emancipation. The CORES
pondeut endeavors to show that emancipation
had nothing to do with the falling of of expor.
taaons, inasmuch as it had already begun
before that measure had been adopted
With that inference we have, at present, moth
Ing to do. What we are DESTROYS to show is
that where there has been an increase in the
IL IN Ia nroAif Cd IN ho #
those islands in which the negro is compelled
to work by hunger-a master more memorable
than any other that it 10 possible to place over
human beings-and that he will work from no
other motive, unless he be a slave. This wri-
ter himself says: " Covering an area of four
millions Of acres, Jamaica has population Of
37s,OOO black, white and mulatto. This makes
about eleven acres to each person. In the
1ourishinE island of Barbados the proportion
10 nearly one and half persons to each acre
II Jamaica were as thickly settled As Barba-
does, it would contain over five millions of
souls, and would export q million of hogs
heads. Till its present population has doubled
and trebled, no material improvement can be
looked for. But where is the money-where
are the vigor and the energy necessary to OBJ
tain this population! Whose fault is it that
tU9O9 Ako W60 tAuS, Nuu tuai JduudIC% Win ldI
greater advantages than Trinidad or Guiana,
has failed to follow the footsteps Of their sue.
cess 7"
Barbados, which all the abolitionists point
10 ~ q specimen of what abolition can do is
the most popuious spot upon the face Of the
globe, with the exception Of Malta. 1t has an
area Of 1O6, 600 acres, and a population of about
$4,000 souls. A. $40 acres make square mile,
it has an area of 165 square miles. and upon
this area a population of 900 to the square
mile. The population of Ireland is about 80
to the square mile, that Of England about 27o
that Of France, including Corsica, about 3o0
that of China about 300; that of Belgium about
80; that Of Bengal about five hundred Now,
here is a country four times as populous as
Ireland, three times as populous as Eng
land, France, Belgium and China, and twice
a. populous as Bengal, and these are the mos,
densely populated countries on the globe
Now, in every part Of the world, population
excessively dense is considered the greatest OF
all possible curses. 1t is the sure parent OF
innumerable evils. Starvation, disease, taxes,
poor rates and distress, in every imaginable
shape, are its inevitable consequences. The
whole world is aware of the efforts Eu-
rope has been making for thirty years to
rid herself of this crushing evil. But
In one quarter Of the globe it is admitted
that this evil is small in comparison with ano-
Their which it would cure. The abolitionisls
themselves confess that redundancy of popu-
lation, three times as great as that which ex-
lists in the most populous countries of Eu-
rope, would be a blessing in Jamaica, because
thereby alone could the full capacity of the
island be developed. This is to say, in SO
many words, nothing but the imminent dan
ger Of starvation will make the emancipa,ed
negro woodworking but the most terrible
evil known to the old world can correct the
still more terrible evil brought by the aboii-
tionists upon the most fertile portion of the
new. A plenty of fresh land, and ample room
for the exercise of industry and skill, are the
greatest blessings free country can offer to
free men. These blessings the pervefse inge-
nuity Of abolitionism converts into a curse,
whenever it has an opportunity. Let this
WSiter tell what it has done for jamaica:
As briefly a. possble-for the theme is thre ad-
bare-I must ende avor to give your readers an ap-
out the political and social abuses and anomalies
Tor WHICH. It seems to me, remedy must be found
prosperity: do not think it can be disputed
history and statistics are to be beieved-that since
tue abolition 81 the slave trade. fifty years
her downward career. do not think it can be dis
pSs1d.1 actual observation can he relied on-that
possible depression. Lower still she can sink
lower still she must snk-If her people are not I'M
bued win more pregnant patrlotism-if the soV-
erning classes are not stimulated to enerset-
70 acton. and are not guided By more unseIhsh
The city of Kingston was once a magnificent
city, situated on a magnificent harbor, and
containing population of 10000 inhabitan t.
Its commercial prosperity was unrivalled. at
least in the British West Indies. See what it
10 now:
''If the city Of Kingston be taken as an liustra-
ton OF the prosperity of Jamaica, the visitor will
arrive ~ more deplOrabe conclusions than those
pointed out BY commercial statistics. 1t seems
lite romance to read to-day, in the capital of ia
dor. Irs magnificent churches'-now time-worn
ard decaysd-ars scarcely superi9r to the stables
Of %dn some F,sh Avenue magnats; There is not
looks thong itcould stand respectable breeze
not wharf in good order-not a street that can
no drainase-scanty watsr--no light. The same
picture of neglect and apathy greets one every
oppressed with its inactivity Clerks sawn over YER
stTanEsr. who comes IN to purchase. If a non
market. and leaves hotel. store, or iivery sta
bae. tolsFably weli aeeced Prices that in New
The OF s Th ssI ki ne pao
Aavins little or ncthjas themselves. they look
away in their harbor for q day or a nisht, as very
Exyptians whom is not only their privilege. but
''Therc 10 nothing like work done in Kingston,
except perhaps in the estab ishmcnts of a few Eu-
Topsxn pr American MERCHANTS, or on the piers,
sels. The city was originally well laid out but it is
not ornamented With single tree. and the square,
q csnttel location. is barren desert OF sand
white het with ex posure TO the blazing sun. The
streets are hlthy, the beach lots SO, and the