Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-03-02

for subsistence III he doe work. Il is because
some master makes him. and because, though
nominally free. he j. really slave. IL f1Iio~s.
that the abolition Of African slavery IN the
South Is The abolition Of African labor: but that
i - abolition of cotton. sugar. tobacco Hnd
rice: that i to say, Of all those productions OF
the South which have made i,s wealth. and have
conduced 20 essentially (beng the main elements
OF ia commerce aud manufacturesl 70 the
wealth. prosperity and power Of the North
In proof that the emancipated African will not
work except for bare subsistence. we appeal 10
facts wherever he has been eman-ipated. Wit
ness first the exports OF 81. Domingo Ia l1s9,
just prior 10 emancipation compared With those
in 1895. some thirty years after that event
1883 1876
Sugar, To-. 1853 .4p5 30 % e64
Coffee. Ib.............. 6515I 80 30. ls9 ia
Cotton. lb........ 6.2e6. loo GU. y72
Nov. ST Domingo produces no sugar. and act
ually imports the little il uses. rs principle ex
ports coffee and logwOOd. the coffee being
gathered Wild from the mountains from the
old abandoned French plantations and the log
wood indigenous TO theisland j. to be had simply
for the labor OF telling the trees THIS cuitiva-
ton has ceased in st. Domingo. as to AL articles
of exports
In the year 500, with slave African labor the
West Indies exported ~ 900 900 pounds Of cot
ton: the United States, IL. 1o9 500 pounds In
1910. the West Indies free A frican labor ex
ported e66.l57 pounds Of cotton; the United
States (slave labor AZ, 94l O6l pounds.
Witness Jamaica The value OF its exports in
1909 aud 1910, some twenty wears before eman
cipation. and in 1883 and 1854, some twenty
years after emancipation.
Years. Val Of Exports
1907. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 3. OBJ 23i
lolO........ -................... 2,3O3.5Iy
isSS. o o5a's,e
1894. ..-........ S32,5lo
While the production of the free West India
Islands dwindles TO almost nothing with free
African labor, from magnificent results with
slave labor the productions OF slave
labor constantly increasing in grand proper
tons Thus the exports of Cuba (slave) in le2t
were valued At sl3 500 ,3eo, and in 1854 at S3l ),
6o3 1871
THE freed West Indian negro" saws an En-
glish authority. Oil not till the soil for wages
the free son OF the ex slave l. a obstinate bis
sire. He will cultivate lands which he has not
bought for his own yams man goes and plantains
These satisfy his wants; he does not care TOT
yours Cotton and sugar ana coffee and tobacco
he cares little for them. he eats his yams and
singers at buckra
Moral and material retrogression has marked
and will mark all communities composed oil
emaDcpated slaves. There are four millions oil
be assured that their emancipation will annhi
late the production OF Southern agriculture. No
under the hands of their old masters. still les:
under the hands Of Northern ntruders, inexpe
rienced in the culture peculiar to the South anC
in the management of the negro, could Southern
production be successfully prosecutedl Tn,
North is insanely striking to utterly destroy tn,
sources of It's own prosperity. Never before ha
such faulty been witnessed. The many millions
that flowed annually into Northern pockets di
rectly aud indirectly from Southern sources viii
be utterly lost BY the triumph OF the Adminislra
ton policy in the emancipation of the slaves
There were some reason but very little right
some shrewdness but very little conscience
some policy but very little honesty. in war upol
the South to restore 1.-THE Union as il was ant
the Constitution il is:' but war of the Mort
upon the South for the abolition of slavery i
the veriest extravaganza of suicidal absurdit
and wickedueSs. Such can only be con.
ceived and prosecuted 10y God abandoned fool
and madmen.