Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-01-14
Abolition fyusn.

In the year lcbO me W est lnuieS exported
900 600 pounds OF cotton The United States
exported less than Is 900 900 pounds. Thirty
three years later slavery was abolished in the
British West India Islands Six wears after
emancipation the West Indies exported only e66
l57 pounds Of cotton, and the United States
743. al .O6l pounds.
These results followed. notwithstanding w m
Ll0yd Garrison predicted that emancipation in
the West Indies would make slavery in the
Southern States die of starvation. The result
was precisely the other way. The West India
planters died out-were ruined The United
States planters prnspered.
In 1890 the value of the exports of Hayt was
SIS 900 600. In ls49. or 90 years after eman
cipation. the exports from Hayti amounted to
only about 81 500 900
In Jamaica a rich and beautiful Island. the
exports amounted To SIS 00O 900 in 1909 But
IN 1893 they amounted to only about 81 600 600
The rich plantations going TO decay. and
wretchedness Is apparent on every hand. Eman-
cpatOn curse 10 both blacks aud whites.
Neither were in 80 good condition nor so happy
as they previously were.
Now let Us come home The New York Tri-
bune publishes some Louisiana statistics 1t
takes he rich parish OF st Marv's, not far from
New Orleans BEFORE the war lis population
cousiste OF about 1000 whites, IL 900 slaves
and 600 free blacks The slave property was
assessed at SO 433, $50 1t was owned on l7l
plantations. which were valued AZ about So ono :
900 Before the this parish produced ia one
season-Sugar. 81 ,9l5 hogsheadS MoasseS. Al :
300 barrels; Corn, 4il2 .0aD bushels; ana other
products valued at s. 800 900.
The average product OF each plantation was
Sl3 547 % The net product was SIT, 265
Each slave in this parish. under the regulations
of Louisiana. neued his master Sl15 per annuni
the laws requiring the master not to OverwOrk
or In any way abuse the slave. but Ia render him
a comfortable support and care in sickness and in
health. in infanc, and old ace
These people happy. and the slaves were
cnnteuted and enjoyed themselves probably rs
well as any other class of IL 900 laborers in the
world
But whether the principal of slavery WAS right
or wrong. one thing was certain, the slaves were
in no 1t condition for sudden emancipation
They had been too long dependent upon toe
care of the master to be ca 2able of self-Support
The figures given" says the Tribune, disclose
a condition of agricultural prosperity such Is
has seldom been exceeded in any part of the
world
The Federal Government has had possession
of this part of Louisiana for about two years
Military rule ami unconstitutional orders have
set the slaves free-ihose that did not follow
their masters into the interior. system of free
labor fer the blacks his been established. and
certain SUN per month Is allow ei to them for
their lbor What i the result? The Tribune
announces that all the prosperity which pre-
eminently characterized the Parish OF ST Mary :
i destroy ed. aud the larger portion of all the
values here named are obliterated"
The Tribune and VIM Lioyd G ,rrison nav
now preach and speculate much as they please
the prosperity of the parish Of 81. MuF's will
never return under abolition rule The low
sugar plantations of Lnuisians the rice panta
tons OF Georgia. the cotton fields of the South
will never he cultivated 10 profit or to the advan
tsge OF the word ~ free labor. The relation o
master and servant under humane laws and
careful regulations. i needed 10 produce wealth
from those lands aud feed the millions thai
await me product OF the rice field, and the move
ment OF the coitvn spindle. As in the West In
Gies. 20 in the Southern States. where plenty ans
happiness were manifest on every hand. Their,
will Ice devastation anu decay. and wretchedRess
under abolition rule and there i no spot OF
earth, OF equal extent that will suffer more By j
ia the end than that covered by the New EGG
land States. where the South came and poured
out her wealth IN the purchase OF manufacture
articles and household Injuries her two huntire,
millions pf dollars worth OF exported cotton. pro
ducine gold or It's equivalent: preserving on
specie basis and making n sound currency Blu
We canhOt reverse the facts of the las. thre
wears The lesson our people are bitterly learn
ing. j. a terrible one aud We now getting IN
10 TINT STAGE Of il. where the mighty question
presented FOR solution. threatens % overwhelu
the coming generaueu, il indeed it does no
speedily crush and ruin the present.
The Tr.l,nne- remark that 81. Msry's Paris