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

s"0t uAo d uOTiV H!ynS- mare TeetO upon tn(
prospects of the West Indies. a. worthy Of on,
imitation. In 1894, when emancipation tool
place in Jsmacis, they predicted that fres-
negro-labor in the West Indies, would soor
render slavery unpro6tablo in tho United
States. The prominent abolition ats, among
them Horace Greeley. Wendell Phillips and
Wn. Lloyd Garrison, encouraged their fol-
lowers with the belief that s:the American
slavs system must soon die from starvation. y
England sbout that time sent to this couu-
tty George .Thompaon, that the fame Of abo.
lit,on agitation might not die down for the
want Of some psrson to fan it. unholv embers
| who unon III occasions made bold to declare,
that sooa all 'slave grown cotton would b
rspudiated BY English manufacturers."-
The hired 'abor Of FREE negroes was to &C
complish al this for it was claimed that
emancipation would give an impetus to pro
ductive Industry, and that the supposed un-
tagging energy Of the freed black man,
would eutstsip the resources Of those eoua-
tries that retained what these fanatics tsrn-
I'd 'the Improbable and expensive system Of
slave labor" .<..s,
The mellelium Of abolitioni.m WAS then,
just ahead! Tho eldorads of negro perfect
ion ~ss then within their grasp! But alas!
their predictions, like those Of the same
party, when At the com;nencemant Of this re-
bsllion, they were going 70 starve out the
South in three months, only remain as
monuments oftheir ignorance and folly.
Neither prediction had any other tendency
upon tho minds ofinte'lieent men, than to
confirm the conviction they previously enter.
tanned, that they were false prophets sent
out Il proelsin the promises ofa false God.
10 1909 the West Indies exported l7.oeo 90
lba Of cotton, and the United States. l7,7s9.-
sos lbs. At this time, they we're both cult
vated BY slave labor and were about equally
productive. but in 1870. the West Indies only
exported Sss, ,l57 lbs of cotton, while the u.
States rai'ed aud exported, beside. the i'm
menss amount consumed at its own factories,
the SUN Of 743.sll .o6l lbs. Instead, howev
q Of their Starving out the labor system of
the D. S, a. these deluded mock philanshro-
pists predicted they would our cotton crop
in 1850 snesutsd to $1,000 900 bales, or es
900. o.ooo.o 900 Lbs, while in ls4s, the last
that We have census report fully reliable
only shows 544,si6 pounds Of o'ttsu produc-
ed BY this fse'hegro labor, that was, &C.
cording to abolition ideas, to revolutionire
the labor sy.tsm of tho werld. England II,
went right on using cotton produced BY
slave labor while her bogus philanth,opist.
to keep up The dslusion have pr.sed about
raising cotton in Africa by free-negro labor,
anil while they have kept on tal"ing the En-
glish manufactures hav steadily kept on
using slave grown cotton.
HAyrl IN 1890.
In 1890 Hayti was in sts to Of tho most
aattsring prosperity. Itwasa a French coll
ony eontaininga population Of 5so.soo per-
sons, ofwhom ss 800 wsre white, 2s,37o free
negroes, mostly mulattoes. This was about
the period of tho French revolution whe"
the doctrine Of 'liberty, equality snl fra.
tsrnity," had as unbonnded sway in France.
as free-soil, free.spcech, and free.msn have
had in tho U. s, tor the past few months
In 1893 tho freedom Of the blacks Of Hayti
Was finally decreed, the national assembly Of
France on the 18th of May 1891, having
granted equal political privileges to all per-
sons without regard to color. The whites
resolved they would not submit to its pro-
visions the negroes resolved to obtain BY
force tho immuni.ies of the proclamation.
Upon the heels Of this follow in dotsil the
oomm,ssion Of crimes, Of murders, Of horrid
butcheries, Of midnight conAsgrations, that
language is irsdequste to fully posray in
all its hsrrid imsg rrh a.-Isl.'
On the asth Of August sonthonsx, the
French Commissioner, ike Abraham Lincoln
proclaimed liberty 70 81 The slave. who
would enrol themselves under the banner Of
the Republic. On the lst Of January 1904,
the independence Of Hayti was declared
the civil wars haviug reduced the population
to ,ses than 400, 900 !; the white ra,s having
been nearly extsrminated Dessalines \
mnlatto, was declared CIV ernur General
and sigaal;zed his entrance upon the duties
Of tho odIee by proclamation written in
blood. justifying and ordering the massacre
Of an whites rsmsini.g IN their midet. He
ruled with rod Of iron, sndli our present
Chief Magistrate forbid every body from
intsrfesing with the efforts efths negroes 10
sbtaiu actual freedom, the latter looking t.
he csinsa committed BY the FORMER and
like him seeking 70 psrpetuate his memory
ID IA immortality Of isfsmy. Every visitor