The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-15
Tho InFluenco OF Liberty on the
Labor of this state.


Tho InFluenco OF liberty on the
Labor of This State.
in our article yesterday, tho opening
sentence should have reAd-The substi-
tuition Of freedom for slavery is not
new problem The influence of freedom
in the British West Indiss was illustrated
yesterday by some facts, and The obscr-
vations OF the authoritative agents Of the
BRITISH Government We gave these
from the most authoritative source. To-
day we shalt give the observations of one
entirely disinterested and thoroughly
competent to decide. lie says Of the
Antilles
"Uhder slavery the Antilles were
Fastening 20 their ruin; with liberty
they have become one of the richest
channels of expectation which England
possesses. Under slavery they could not
have supported the shock of free trade /:
with liberty they have gained this new
battle. Such are the net proceeds of
experience. II we still have doubts, let
us compare Dutch Guiana, which Las
slaves, 10 English GUAM, which hes
emaneipAted them. The resources of
these countries are almost equal English
Guiana is progressing, while the culture
OF Sdrinam are forsaken three fourths
of its plantations are already abandon
cd, and the rest will follow"
In reference 10 the production of su.
gar the same author says "The EGG
lish Antilles, with their free negroes
and their unprotected sugar, forced
to face entire liberty in all its forms,
import TO- day into the metropolis
nearly million moro hogsheads than At
the, crisis when free trade broke forth
Thus fee labor not only stood the shock
OF emancipation but entered TO CONNIE
tion ON equal grounds with the produc
ton Of slavery in Cuba, and has surpsss-
ed it, In the same Islands, the compari.
son of the production of sugar in the last
two years Of slavery and the last two
of freedom shows a vast increase in
favor Of the latter. IL. A III
In their moral and intellectual oulinrc
the progress has been still greater anon,
tho freed men. The Governor of TOBACCO
4 . #.
says; al deny that our blacks of the
country are Of indolent habits. So in
dustriops class of Inhabitants does moi
existin tho world"
The children are assiduously sent "a
schools, the support Of which denenas
IN great part upon the voluntary gif,s OF
the'negroest Ia u "l e'''' "
We should be at once surprised and
inundated were we TO compAre the much
Vapaied gltts Of our charity with those
OF these poor people, these freed man ~
yesterday, whom we think that we NAV
righttully treat with disdain."
In Jamaica, the least prosperous of al,
the colonies, because the freed men had
greater difficulties 10 encounter tbo
above author says: "Among these FREQ
negroes there are not less than ten tbou
sand iand-holders, and three.eiehths Of
che cultivated soil is in their hands The
middle class of color grow richer dav bv
day; the families that compose il all own
horse or mule; they have their bank
i. INV
books and their accounts with the saw.
ings banks" Such is the testimony O,
dismterested witness to tho success Of
this work of British benevolenee !,
tried in the United States, under 4 mild
er climate and supported by higher
civilization and more enlightened enter
prise, 1t will be still more successful.
We propose now to compare two Statss
IN 8West-Tonnessee and Ohio. The
former has much larger domain, and il
equally gifted in natural resources. The
greatsourcs Ofwealth is population. We
VIII compare the population in each for
succession Of years, commencing in
lSoo' for previous to that year Ohio b.,
no oensus: