The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1864-03-12

sincerely desirous Of promoting The true in
'eresp of the nation:
We do not hesitate a. afFi rm ihat the pol
icy Of the "A dminlstration earned out in III
Southern States, would annihiIate s lutheri
PRODUCTIONS Tor an the purposes Of com
merce. and reduce il az once 20 the mini
mum for suppor. THE depreciation woul
be continually and inevitably increasing =
The great staples Of the South cotton. ~
gar. tobKcco and rice. are the predictions o
African labor. and they musr continue 4
be %. But all experience proves that tn
African will not work unless he is made 10
aud he canno' be made unipss he Is a slave
We may alter hs condition in some respect,
and call him frve II really tree. he won'l
work. except fur subsistence. II he doe.
work, i j. because some ma-ier makes him
aud becanse. though nominslls free, BE- j.
rea lly : slave follows. that the abolition
N African siavsry N 'hs South j. ih- aboii-
iion o Airican labor; bur that i The nbol-
lion Of cot'on. sugar tobacco and rice; thu,
y % say. " sIi those productions of The
Sn'h witch have made hs wralsh. und have
conducet % essentially (being The mrin
elements ~ ~ commerce and manufaclures)
p the wealth, prosperity and power Of the
North.
IN proof that the emancipaied Afrlcar
will not work excerpt for bare subsistence.
we appeal 10 facts wherever he has been
emsncpated. Witness issr the exports cf
-. Domingo 10 1859. just prior 70 emanci
patton compared Urn those Ia 1926. soue
thirty y-ars alter that event.
1889 1896.
Sugar. 10. 1863 34O5 go 80 2s6f
Coffee, lb. IS l5l.ISO 32 Is9.7sf
CHton, ID. q $50 .l26 Gao 972
Now. -. ID .mIngo produces 10 sugar, and
actually imports the little il uses. It's prin
ciple eAncrts are cnfFse and Icgwood. The
coffee 5einc gathered wild IRON thr mrun.
tins, or from The old stsndoned French
plantations; aud ihe iogwood indigenous To-
The island; j. 10 had simply TOR the labor Of
telling The trees. Thus cultivation hss
ceased ~ 81. Domingo, a. 10 ell articles oil
exports.
In the year 1900. with African slave labor
the West Indiss exported IL OO0.O pounds
of cotton; ih~ United ates. IL. .7S9, SOB
pounds. " 1910, The West indies (fres Al
'iean Iabor) exported s66.l57 pounds OF cot
Ion. the Uni ed States (slave Ia5or.) 743.-l
94hO6l pounds.
Witness J.maics. The value or its ex-
ports 10 lSO9 and 1910, some twenty wears
before emancipation. and 10 1858 and 1854 I
some twenty years ater emarcipa, ion.
Years. Val. of Exports.
1907 fs 0s3 2sf
1910 2 23u3.579
1853 s37.a76
1854 esa 3l6l
While the production OF the tree West
India Islands dwindies 10 almos, nothing
with free African labor. from magnificent
results wiihe slave labor. we see The produc-
ions Of slave labor constantly increasing in
grand proportions. Thus the exports oil
cuba (sIavcs) IN 1926 were valued at Sl3,
'0s3ss, and in 1854 st S3l 6s3.73I.
The freed West Indian ncgro.v says On
English authority, gill not till the soil for
wages; the free son Of the ex slave is as OBJ
'tinate as his sire. He will culiiyste lands
which he has not bought foy bis own ysms
rangoes sad plantains. These satisfy bis
wants; he does not care for yours. Cotton
ind sugar and coffee and tobacco-he cares
little for them. tie eats his yams and snig
yers at "buckrav
Moral and material re,rogression hss
marked and will mark al communities com
posed OF eman cipated slaves. There are four !.
Millions Of slaves in our Southern States.-l,
Let the North be assured that their eman-
sipation will arnihIatc the production OF
Southern agriculture. Not under the hands
II their old masters, still less under the hands
u Nothern intruders, inexperienced in the
.llture peculiar to the South and In the