New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1863-08-07

being iritcrrogated rs to whether the tern
''dcscrt' was qsitc applicable to thsstate u
things existing there, Re replied II should
say peculiarly applicable, without any ,ex.
a.Gc,aton' One more quotation taken
from tlfcavork of Mr.. +. B. Underhill, an abo.
l:ionisto Of the darkest dye, VINO was sent out
Wy the Baptist Missionary SocIety of London,
and entitled tho "West lndies-their moral
ana social cond:tion" Says he in describing
tis journey to Port au Prince
W. passed By urny, through many abandoned plan
iions the buildings in rufus, the sugar mills decsyed
and the pans stewns the roadside cracked and bro
Ten But for the law that forbds pain of conhscaton
the export Of all metals they would long ago nave ncen
sold to foreign merchants.
Only once in this long ride did we upon mill in
u.s it was grinding canes IN order to manufacture the
sv,un from, which tafa is made. Kind fin.ersor rum, the
inoAcsn ing drink of the country. The mill was worked
b. large the water being brought
iy an aqueduct from very considerable distance With
the exception Off few banana gardens small patches o!
Inzc Around the cottages where did this magnificent
fertile plain show signs Of cultivation In the time Of
the French occupation, before the Revolution Of 1898 thou
lands hogshcads Of sugar wore produced; NO" NOT
6Se. ALI is nrcAY AND pEsoLArioS. The pastures are
ius with the bright hues of-:he sugar cane .....
c hydraulic works, erected at vast expense for rriga.
, have crurlhiei to dust The pillow Is an unknown I'M
pmelt Of agriculture althoughso einently adapted to
the great plains and deep soil of llay,i.
country capable of producing for export and there
fore the enrichment of its Sugar and
coffee cotton, Tobacco the cocoa bean spices. every
tropical fruit and many of the fruits Of Europe lies uncut
JNatcd, unoccupied and dcsolate.
hr,,es nett there
xa,tifl woods in the soil where they grow little
oyood exported but ebony, mahogany ard the finest
building timber rarely falls benea. the woodans axe and
then only fer local use The present inhabitants despise
n manual labor and are for the most part. content with
"a, spontaneous productions Of the soil and forest
SLAVE AND CooLIE LABOR.
On these West India Islands there were
liberated $50, Geo ceg,o es a number nearly
coual to all the slaves ia the L. s., at the
f,rm ,ton fthc Union Yet theTroducts ct.
these Islands have nearly ceased. except
What a-rsc~ from coo'ic labor. Between the
years 1917 and 1856, there were 47.739 la
I,orers hired and introduced in to these lslande
to perform the labor that English abolition
lists were going to have done by the maui
lnittel slave These hired laborers. these
vuo'ics arc jus. 47,7ae protests against the
;azness Of the negro. The world has been
rcgapcd from one end to the other to get la
lorcrs to horde the wealth that Eng fish
aboli,ion;sts offered in vain 70 the emancipa-
ted Slaves of the West Ind es.
COMMERCE AND EXCHANGE.
But say our abolitionists what has the
Eo.th and slavery to do with the North and
its PROSPERITY Is not the North. they tri-
umphantly ask great and powerful of her.
scFa' With all Difference to the numbers and
Intelligence of the interroeators, | answer
lee sivo'y ana en- haticalIy, no! Let me
Illustrate the matter suppose all the negroes
If Brazil Cuba and the Southern States,
from which we derive a.! our groceries, were
LET to manufacturing for themselves, and to
raising grain pork, beef and vegetables, for
Fhcir own subsistence, there would OF course
be 20 n, arket or exchange with them for our
commodities, manufactures andproducts'tnd
of course no commerce The all wise Creator
has given to the earth d tferent product MS,
difference in soil and in climate. with differ
aat degrees in latitude for the purpose of pro-
noting the good of all his creatures through
the intervention Of commerce, and the ex
change of commodities. Each hemisphere
has it's different degrees of latitude, with cor.
responding differences in climate, in soil, and
product,an leach zone requiring different
character and quality of 'abor, to tie products
Of each, aud to Owe throw that system of la
ber, BY which alone the tropics can be Guilt
waited, is as detrimental to tho real interests
of mankind, as to subeert ard~crerthrew the
social system existing in any other zone. 1t
is vs. absurd to attempt to cultivate the trop-
les hy freed negroes, as to attempt 70 cuti-
v,te tho temperate latitudas by enslaying the
Caucasian .>~
EUROPE AS \ MARKET.
For us to look to Europe as market for
ear surplus productions is the widest and
most fatal delusion entertained upon agri-
cultural questions by the American PEOPLE
In looking its surface, VIC find the bene-
1ecn. band that spread out here all the boun.
ties Of His providence, has dealt with equsl
jiherality there, giving them all the degrees
of1atitude our country has, with Of course,
equal facilities in soil. climate and natural
productions, from which to supply all : their
wants and necessities, Hence, the only limit
there, as here, 70 the supply, depends upon
the question Of their using Or rejecting, the
means, God has given them, to produce sup
plies suited to. al their wants. conditions
apd necessities. 1nseparabfy- competed With