Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-02-07

ihH iS" SVH 30 huu cneaply Suppilen want
are o'ermasiered by one absorbing desire
TO be free and to rest. In his vicious ex
perieuce, freedom and idleness, slavery ant
toll, are convertible terms. Then the hu
which he hos built with bis own hands. iht
garden be has plant ed aud tended, why urt
lthey not bis How shall the master
from whom he has just been emancpated
deprive him Of these fruits or his own Ia
bor or compel him to pay heavily IN labor
for their use ! What is this but subt Ier
SlaVery2 He stands perplexed, indignant
sullen, suspicious, aud bis 6rst year of free
dom ls apt to be one Of little thrift or hap
piness. lie has nothing but bis hands TO
call bis ownJ the only person seeking to
! hire them is that old master who curses
Ehanclpatiou, declares himself ruined by it,
clinEs TO tho hope that it will be retracte ed
ss an absurd blunder, and has nothing
wherewith to pay for the labor which be
sukiIy requires OF those he stil regards as
fngitives, by favoro OF an igaorant and addle.
pated philanthropy, from bis rightful ser.
vice. To return TO work for him under the
old overSeer, seems essentially return TO
Slavery---that is, TO harsh lreatnhent and
work without wages. II each planter
could pay for his lobor every Saturday
night few would have reason to complain
Of the lack Of hands If be could even pay
for It in Goldfish, calico, and other Decessa-
ries OF negro life in he, w est Indies, at
rohnd prices, he would have enough daily
Offering. But too often he can only prom
Use 10 pay from the proceeds of his coming
crop and how is the laboriOg freedmen to
live meantime In that mild climate, lit.
tie slothing 10 required the ample for ests
and waste lands afford wild f,uits aud 9th
er sdibes ; aud "Quashee, up to his ears
in pnmpkin," is no hyperbole Exports
necessarily fall off, for cultivation is re
strcted aud the planters--who have
been calling themselves ruined and impor.
tuning Parliament for relief ever since
there 1rere planterS--are ruined more Yocif
erouslY than ever ..ur. rr
- Bnt, in process Of time, matters steadily
improve. The NEGRO learns by experience
hat even Liberty connot be thoroughly en-.
joyed on an empty Stomach--that life with
| ont labor is impossible. No longer coDin.
ed to the path from his, hut to the corn
field, he travels and sees, he notes aud re
fleets and his artificial wants steadily in
crease in number and importantly. His
love Of luxury, Of 6nery. of admiration, can
be satisfied only by labor bis fnmily affrc
tions also make drafts upon his Industrial
energies he learns by experience that,
though some planters are bankrupt or ras.
caliy, SO that no pny for work in their fields
is forthcoming Others are honest aud sol
vent, and may be trusted with perfect safe
ty. He improve. in Intelligence, therefore
in efficiency and his children grow up in
bISsful ignorance Of the prejudice that con
founded Industry with Slavery And thus
the temporary anarchy following Emanci
patton is succeeded by steadily augmeutiug
thrift aud PROSPERITY. r. 5at .a
M Cochin shows by official statistics
that the French Colonies Martinique,
Gnaduloupe, Isle Bourbon, and part of
Guiana) produce and export more Sugar
since than before Emancipation, aud this
in spite Of the depressing competition of
the immense and rapid development of
Beet Sugar in France, which has material.
Iy reduced the price Of the saccharne sta.
pie. ..t
So much for the Atheistic clamor against
Emancipation as the ruin of tropical indus
try and the deprivation of mankind of Cot
ton, Sugar, Rice, Coffee, Tobacco, Cocoa,
etc, etc. The fact that the greater bulk
of these staples nerer rere grown by slave
labor ought to have siIenced This clamor
hat, since it did not, it may be well to
show that, in the French as well as in the
maturer experiment of the British West
Indies, Sugar is grown as cheaply and abun-
dainty by Free as it ever was by Slave
Labor.
But Man shall not live by bread alone.
Sugar and Cotton are good in their place
but Justice and Humanity are of far great
er moment If it be n ques ton whether
Mau shall be degraded and WO Han trod-
den into the mire with impunity, or Chris,
tendon live as Of yore without the cheap
aud agreeable products Of the tropics, who
wOuld not sav, Perish Cotton, Coffee, Su.
gar, so that Man be noble and woman un-
shame6 Free Labor in Northern France
had, for years bef, re Slavery was abolished,
been preparing for triumph over the trep-
les in the production Of Sugar, and its
march, guided by Science, is still onward.
Of Beet Sugar. the production has rapidly
increased until, without shadow of pro,
lection remaining, it nearly or quite divides
the rapidly increasing consumption Of
France with the Cane. a. l..
France has no lands nearly so well adap
ted to the Beet as the prairies of our Wes-
te states, wherein the Sorghum. or cane
Of the Temperate Zone, is already rapidly
attaining Importance as a Sugar plant
and it is quite possible that the improve.
ments now maturing in machinery for the
reduction of Flax and other fibrous pro-
ducts of these latitudes to a plable state,
will preclude the resumption BY King Cot.
ton Of the throne he so wantonly addicted.
II. therefore, the Cotton and Sugar Of low.
eT latitudes should never regain the impor.
tatce they enjoyed during the second quar-
ter of oar century, that result will be due
to other causes beside the overthrow of
Human Slavery. -..ast ea..s
At the close Of ls41, Gust before Emsn.
cipation, the Slave Colonies Of France had
a Free population Whites and Mulattoes)
of I39 O89 and a Slave population of 233.