Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-04-02


thirty four thousand hundred weight Of sugar, thrss
million three hundred and thirty nine thousand pounds
of coffee, million seven hundred and seventy nine
| thousand gallots Of rum, and hundred and two
hundred wsight Of mo!aisea Nor has be forgotten
the remarkable Report Of the House Of Assembly Of
jamaica made at this date showing that already sI
hundred and fftythree sugar, and four hundred and
forty s, cess plantations upon the leland, had been
abandoned and their work, entirely destroyed; that
the enfranchised negroes had become ncurably ndo
lent and apatheo; and that the probability existed,
we're the remaining white inhabitants Withdrawn, the
negroes would relapse into their former barbarian.
"But the fact over which the mind Of Seward has
most sloated In the investigation Of these statistics,
Il that of the sudden fall 10 the vaus Of landed %
tstes consequent upon an interference with the nst
tuition Of negrc-.livery wherever IL may exist iras
much - teaches hin the readest mode Of access to
the lands of the South BY his agrarisn fsoWers The
Rome Houston and Great H.ariem Estates In JAmai-
-" cs, which we're valued, even a. late IS 1885, at one
hundred and ffy thousand pounds sterling, only eight
years Afterwards were set down at the figure Of ry-
three thousand Eve hundred pounds. Estates that in
1888, when the Act Of Parliament took eject were
bearing mortgages, ranging from ave thousand to
thirty thousand pounds sterling, without feeling the
! L" incumbrance, were nov crushed BY the incumbent
weight and sold for less than the mortgages upon
them Hs well knows that similar results must follow
At the south bis scheme Of emancipation and apprtn.
ticsshp, and s. trsos him practically In this re-
| "spect
"The Government In purchasing up the slaves Of the
South will az upon them ils own average prizes, q
Great Britain did. II the general average should be
| one hundred dollars round, and more could be
scarcely expected the millions Of slaves proba
bly, existing at the time this political will be
" taken, would stand the Government seven hundred
millions Of dollars, although this immense sum would
not be mors than onetenlh Of their actual current
value. But as to this the savshoiers will b pow
erlen and the Government omnipotent and 50 1t was
with Great Britain and her col,nss. The magnitude
OF the sum Of oitensibls purchase money II paid in
cash, would sagser the Government Bat this viii
not BE- DONE Is viii only be paid In the bonds Of The
Government bearing the usual legal ntsrss. Of six PR
cent, and redeemablea century hsncs. To thi, cay
Great B ain has paid will she pay,
cent Of the principal Of her emancipation fund, as
Mr.. Seward well knows. The annual interest would
only require fortytSo millions, insgplf,snt cum
in lis relation 10 the immense Of the Eapr
" and which the Government would not materially
feel Toe savss oerg thus transferred the Govern
ment leaving the planters landowners Of the Souh
without kbor the sf,ct Of the operation their pc
euniary condition GIN be readily imagined. Their
present condition. in this rspeot similar to that Of
the British planters In the Wet In lila Colonies prior to
the Get of abolition passed by the British Parliament,
that is say almos: every estate at the South
valued at two hundred thousand dollars, equally divi
ded bttseen lands and machinery, the one side
sud negroes and live stock on the other, 10 incun.
berod with debt, BY way of mortgage or otherwise,
Of at leas. twenty hous ,nd dolrs, and In proper
ton with larger Lesser estates. The average price
allowed by the Govsrnnsnt for the saves bsug only
one tenth of their actual value will reduce each hun.
dred thousand dollars of personal esas to ten thou
sand and this would net be payable In cish but
only in Government bopds bearing legal interest," and
which could not be made available o,sh, except N
an enormous saorincs the real derived to the
planter owning one hundred thousand dollars worth Of
negro saves al current prices would be the annual
mount OF Interest due on ten thousand dollars In
other words, an income Of only SIX hundred dollars
"per annum Being alike unaccustomed to tie
apprentice system OF seytuie and unwilling to hire
apprentices thoss whom be had recently owned 9
slaves the planter will be 10th to hire from the Gov
eminent agents having tie negro apprentices in charge
the requisite force for the cultivation OF his lind and
"tke employment Of his machinery and, grounded, u
he mu.t be- in the mild morale OF the Pariarehal iyi
tenn Of slavery and labor 10 the midst Of which he has
been reared his heart and head will both revolt a! the
/" driving ivihD Of labor eliminated BY Great Britain
| d" and France, In association with that worse than
Egyptian bondsg., the Apprentice Ssrvies, ard
- now 10 BE- inflated and pursued in this Country
HE lands s,d machinery will be- therefore, unavoids
bly, and Immediately with the fact of emancipation 70.
duced in value In similar ratio to that Of bis person
al estate and thu, to be cold under the Sheriff. ham.
mer Is was the csss in tho British Colonies SO that
an estate at the South Of two hundrad thousand dollars
in vau- consisting Of lands and nesroes enabling its
owner live in al. i,nce aud to educate his children
In mental and physical refinement, wotl1 be swallowed
up TO the last dollar by ~ indebted Tess Of twenty
thousand dollars Through this artul aud simple con-
trivares Of the Government ct Washington, under the
guidance Of Seward, It plin the planters of tie
South will be reduced from wealth want and their
children to begsary that the families Of the South
will bscoms dispersed that the places that once knew
them will know them more ;snd that the very men,
Dries of their existence will bs suffered to perish from
the page of history, or be written down BY Yankee
hand. Even Warrington and Jsfsrson will cease 10
d" be regsrded IS mon Of Southern birth and blood
"But Northern capitalists having no other dsas Of
negrosavery than those carefully props gated BY the
" AbOi.ionisn, and assosiaedl With brutality and The
" driving ,ys.sp Of labor, will fad difficulty In the
forum Of their conscience after buying up the pAnts
tons of the South under forced sales, ia bring the
negro apprsn i,es the terms Of the Government
an arrangement easily Elected in sllis dstss-thsre-
"by intcnsifJiOg negro l,bor and stimulating in.
creased prediction Of Southern staples that Ws
shall look in vain for any loss Of cotteD tobacco rice
"or sugar. TO the commerce and manufactures of the
"Ns,b and that disaster will follow to the general
"indssry OF the United States q . WHOLE nOr any
destructive shock to general society 10 the language
of BLACK Rsppblicali,m 81. nnere caes iotsrest an