Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-02-10

W TO her government. Duo SUI, wv, "a Po
riences q fair share Of revolutions. In th'
other States revolutions are the rule, an(
peace the exception. We also behold the
richest country in the New World, cornpri
sed in the five Central American States
nearly stripped of population, its fruitful
soil uncultivated, its mines unworked, ane
it's petty governments without strength, sta
bility Or responsibility. There nobody care'
70 labor, and all, black and white, struggle
by cunning deceit or force to govern their
fellows. Turning to Mexico, we behold 6
country whose wealth in soil and minerals
is fabulous, devastated by the brigandism Of
civil war "a country where life and proper
ty have ceased to find protection, while anar-
civ and bloodshed arrests all human pro-
gress.
What influence is mainly chargeable with
having inflicted such irreparable injury up
on the New World, by the destruction of
African labor? That Of great Britain. -
Like the axe in the hands of the reckless
woodman, she has contributed to destroy
what centuries of labor cannot restore; and
if one half Of this Union, and that by all
odds the most conservative portion, has not
been overthrow and desolated by civil war
worse than that which destroyed the West
India Islands and involved half the Ameri-
can continent in bloodshed and anarchy, it
has not been her fault, nor the fault of her
incendiary agents-the abolitionists Of the
free States Of the North. With all her cru
sades against African labor in the New
,Lo lot 70 CT in
South America. Not long since she made
heavy loan to Brazil, and at rates conside-
rably above par, while she would not touch
the coupons Of those States which have a.
bolished negro labor with ten foot pole.
The Southern States have great duty to
perform, and one vhich they owe alike to
themselves, to the African laborers commit
ted to their charge, to the stability ofgovern-
ment, to commerce, to civilization, and to
the happiness and progress of the human
race generally, to discharge with fidelity and
humanity The tendency Of all communi-
ties; but more especially in the enervating
climate Of the tropics, where African labor
is overthrown, is to anarchy on the one
hand, and to the one-man power on the 9TH
er. The destruction of African labor by
emancipation and the final extinction Of the
race are Synonymous, This is seen to be
the result in the West indies as well as in
the free States Of the North. In Jamaica,
by an official report sent by citizens of that
island to Mr.. Labouchere, then Secretary
of the Colonies, itappears that, owing to the
want Of proper cleanliness and other hygien-
ic precautions, together with the neglect of
Observation-Disclosures carefully attended to
by our Southern planters-the fatal preva-
lence of cholera and small pox occurred sim
ultaneously, and that in the single year of
1850-'51 about SO, 600 of the negro popu-
lation were swept off. It is also stated that
the negroes would not work, and that unless
supplies of labor could be obtained from 9TH
err sources, either from Africans taken from
slavers, or from the coolies, the productions
Of the island, and the negroes themselves,
promised ultimately to disappear.
It is not alone in the tropics that emanci-
patton of the African race leads to their de-
struction
When the first census of the United Sta
ties was taken in 1890, there were 49, 600
African slaves in the free States of the
North, and 81 600 free negroes, making
total of 81 GEO. The increase of the slaves
OF the South has been at the rapid rate of a
bout thirty per cent each decade. Now, had
the negroes at tie North increased as fast as
the negroes at the South, by the end of the
sixth decade, Or in sixty years, they should
have amounted to about 1876 600; but in
stead of this, we find that the census 1850
only gives total of about 149, 600; part
of which was supplied by recruits from the
South What has become of the missing ne
groes ? Some masters, probably to prevent
their loss by emancipation, sold their slaves
to the South; yet this does not account for
their whole disappearance. Every New
Yorker and Jerseyman Of four score and ten
can recollect the time when negroes were
more numerous than they are now. He can
remember uher they Iabored abort our docks
leading end unloading vessels, inspriting
each other by their loud and sonorous songs;
when they labored in the streets, waited IN
hotels and served in private families
Where are they now !? Where have they
mysteriously disappeared ? If you want an
answer, examine the tumrli IN our PETERS
fields, or consult the dissectors in our medl-
cal colleges to which pneumonia,
typhus fever, varioloid, consumption; scro-
fulous affections, and other wasting diseases
often amidst want and filth,