Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-06-23

tne necessity ioe sttoi'S ooShu6 'e ho' 6iAuu
ally disappearing, but the contrary; and fsr
from dischsrgirg Vnllsndigharn, there is the
most urgent necessity to cGsiu up Pugh.
AN APOSTLE OF PEACE.
At the lsto grand and mammoth Peec'
Meeting in New York, the principal speaker
at <Ss,na No. 81 was certain Judge
McCunn. We find bis speaoh quite interest
ing, recollocting that this very Jadgs McOunn,
early in the war raised regiment m New
York 10 aid in restoring the Union BY force
and commanded that regiment, until some ir-
Irregularities in his money transactions made it
n,cdful for him to retire ftom military life;
undor dark cloud. He row Expresses him-
self in the following manner:
No man wishes for the restoration OF tho
Union more than I do; to preserve 1t and
make it more permanent, if possible, Ii the
dearest object of my life To msintan the
rights and honor of my country would give
The last coat from back, and tho lsst ounce OF
nv hearts warm blood; but to war such
ss w,x,e dow waging-unfalr IN liz princl?les,
70 es.nbl Sd moro idea or sentiment, fnnstic.l
and ruiaous il its conss qusnces-l wou not
cca:ributu single tff1It or aingis Chilling
LnuG cheers
rgo long 7ears of c!uol xnd bloody vsr
hays ps,soc; five bundled Thousand Ct car
hes. non ksvo ps;ishsd i'll n, sstsm9.; their
bleaca:d bones within every 6 ell sud naun-
tain in the land; tho men whol they called
coTSrds, kraves md fools havo been yicto-
rious on almost every Fl I'D, and il tho III DIST
of victories have set Il implies TO our snte;s
Of a moderation worthy Of Imitation; and y5t
this is the great people thsae madmen sc' 10
couQusr. Think Of 'he ml.!ioa # rShite To-
boz dest-2yei in this va; cf tho 'oiing
ai1eteen or twenty miilians # 2r7 Own kita
ard kin they sre saddl:Dg with all en3Im Jns
debt, debt that viii! take ccssas CT sal:
sweat from tire poor man BROW befO:o II Is
paid of. Net only the nineteen or twenty
miIi,ns COW exis,irg, but tue untold mil
lion: cfunborn sons Of toll, who mast come,
ard 20, ed slave, and work belize it 10 csn
cslled. W.e essIaves tia toi'ipg and con-
scring n,ssses, and en:icnes sud makes a!ls-
tocrsts of the is=. d. these mau:2en think
Of the hearts msce dsso!a.e, the homes made
rseH ass, the widowed mothe. and Tho gsi'-
derirg orphan, tho thousa7Ca Of dying braves
i4llen IN bstt.o, lying il tpcso g1astly h@iGs
# slsrghtoc, With hfe's swect vasa b,oLd
eb6ing iast away. without cup of cid We
;sr TO cool their parched lips il tne last dark
hour CT iheir bitter agony And al this, ID
ue.yen's II oily name, for "whst :" To c.
t.blsh = nero sentiment, in behalf OF a
wrctchcd rsce to whom God has not given
braias enough to appreciate our eft 'rts.
But the ex Colonel NcCunr dooo not stop
with these general reflections. He proceeds
to make lesrpcd viuticaticn Of slavery it
self; and hiss discovered that pailsnshropic
emancipation for negroes have always been
f.ilures and rposturcs:
Look at Hayti, ono of the most beautiful
islands Of the; group, and hear what Under
hill says:
1--WE passed by many or through many
abandoned plantations, the buildings in ruin,
the sugar mills, dscsyed, aud the iron psps
asrewing tie roadside, cracked and broken -
But for tho law that forbids, on psin of con-
hscation, the export of all metals, thsy would
long ago have been sold to foreign mef-
chsnts.
sin the time of the French occupation, be
fore tbs Revolution of 1893, thousands Of
hcgshcads of sugar were produced; now not
ono All is daosT and desolsson."
Look also at thu beaut fu island Of ia
maics, containing about 6,400 square miles
of the r;chsss soil in the world, the value CT
the exports in 1909, before emancipation,
wss over $4,000 900; after emancipation, ia
le53, it was only 100000. The assessed
Y luaion Of properly in the island before
emancipation, 1843 was $3.50 600 600; its IS
sessad value III 1852 was ouly s37 100000;
in the Same year the number Of ss'ates ruined
var "a f>llows :-"Ssgar estates abandoned,
1879, OF 275,OOO acres; coffee plantations sb,n.
doaed, 1872, or 493 900 acres" And the
PROCESS has been going on siuce the act of
emancipation. To "Uyclor iia of Cam-
msrce'' Gays SHAT the negro is rapidly rcce-
ding to savage ttsto.' Another ob1li;ion
journal says-I mean tho London "Tiues':
(Hisses)
There is no blinking tho Truth. Years of
bitter experience, years of hcpo dpfarse3, OF
self devotion unrequited, Of prayers un.n.
swersd, e suff,rings do,ided, of Insults up-
resented. Of ;on.umely patiently endured,
have convinced us of the truth. Il muat BIT
apcken out loudly and enorGo;icalIy, despite
the wild mockings Of 'hoTling can't T"e
freed West India playe will not till the soil
for wsges; the FREQ soa Of the ex slave is ae
obstinate IA his siro. Tho negro n.s boon
bought WITH crice--thu price OF lglish
taxation and English toll. He has been re-.
deemed from boEdsgo by the sw eat az d travail
of some millions Of hard working Esq isa-
men. HUNDREDS Of millions of dollars tave
been distilled from the brains and muscles of
tho FREQ E3glish sborer to fashion the
West Indis negro into a Stree, independent
laboror.' Free and independent enough he
has become, God knows, but lsbo, be will
not"
C'p.ain Hsmilton, Witness before the
House Of Commons, tessfsd that Jsmaica,
without any eXaggeration, had become do
sort. A Mr.. Baird, one of tho most strenu-s
Gus aavocates of the Emancipation xct, says:
Let . visitor $50 with his own eyes the
neglected and abandoned estates; the uncul-
tivsted fields, fsss hur:ying back into state
Of nature, with all he speed Of tropical luxu-
risncc; the dismsntled aad silent machinery,
the crumbling walls and deserted mansions,
which arc familiar sights in most of the
British West India colonies. Let him than
transport himself to tho Spanish Islands ef
Porto Rico and Cuba, and. witness tho ,ifs
and activity which in these slave colonies
p'ovail.'
Ex-Governor Wood, Of Ohio, another an
ti-ssvory advocate, after visit to JAmsics
says:
Since tho blacks haYo been liberated they
have become indolont, insolsnt, degraded and
dishonest. They are 1ude, bssstly sst Of
vsgabonds, lying naked about tho streets, as
filthy as the Hottcntots, and believe worse.
SswaIl, smother abolisionist, says:
"There is not house in dacsns repair; not
wharf in good order; no pavement, no side.
walk, no dr.iasges and scanty water; no
light. There IS nothing like work dose--
Wreck and ruin, dNstituion and neglect. The
inhs6itants, taken en- masse, are steeped to