Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-01-08
From the Hartford Daily Times. !
Abolition Ruin.

Ia the year feOO me Ness indies exported
lh00UQOO lbs oi cotton. lhe United States
exporter less Than le,OOVOOV lOs thirty
three years lAter slavery was aoohshsd m the
British Mest lhd'a Islands. SIX years aitee
emancipation, tue west indies exported only
4. SOB l9t los OF COTTON, ehd inc OnHed states
40 x, Ool los'
hSse results followed, not"ihs'andlng
Nm' Loya Nagrison pteu'e1ea th1t emSnelpa'
tipu w tue W tH iuuitA "outu uhAt SLAVERY
3 in che Southern United States "die OF stArva-
ton, Ihh reSu was precisely the other way
The Wcst luda planters died Out--they were
ruined The United States planters prosper
ed
In lI9O the value OF the exports OF hhyti
vas Sz5,OOO0OO. 10 1919, or sixty years al
ter emancipation, mo exports from haytl
amountedto only about two and half mil
| lions OF dollars.
! lnJRmalca, rich and beautiful Island, the
exports amounted 20 $l5,OOO,0OO IN lSO9.
But in 1858 they amounted to only about "a
/ 600 600. The rich plantations are going to
decay, and wretchodness IS apparent on every
hand. Emancipation was curse TO both
blacks and whites. Neilhsr were IN 80 good
condition, nor so happy as they previously
were.
Nov let as come home. Tho New York
! Tribune OF last Saturday publishes some Lou
ls'ana statistics. IL takes the rich parish OF
st. Mary s. not far from New Orleans. Be
foro tho war its population consisted of about
| 1000 whites, $4,000 slaves, and COO ireo
/ blacks The slave property was assessed at
! F6 6,i3B 25O IL was owned on III plantations,
which wsrO valued at about 5000 900. Be-
fore the war this parish produced IN one sea
son
sngar..' ato.s ioo hotsheads
Lnsheis
Other products valued at ss3eoP9.
! Inc average product oil each plantation was
SlJ,ol ho9. Inc mel p,oanct was Plo,@oo'
Each slave N TINS parish under tue regnla-
TONS OF Louisiana, neted ms master sl1o
per ahhnn laws Fequrlns 'no n'aster
MOI 70 o'sr"ork or IN any way abuse tne save,
out 10 renuer MIN a conio.lho.e support anu
care III S'ehheSH AM W. heA'tnt III i"'ahcy anu
old age lhese peop'e were happy ana the
slaves were contented ana enjoyed themselves ives
propahy hS wen as any o'her CLASS OF ZiUVU
1 iaborhfs IN tue worm Dut "he'her 'he prih-
clpla OF slavery was right or wrong, one thlng
was certain, the slaves were IA no nj condlton
or sudden emancipation lhey had beeh 100
long dependent upon the care OF lhe master
to be capable of selishpport "lhe hgures
lon ol agrlcnt turai prosperity such as mas
seldom oeen exceeded III any part oil the
"Srld
ne Federal government has mad possession
OF th's part ol Louisiana ior aho1t lE0 years
Military RUE ana unconstitutional orders nave
SET the slaves iree- those that ana NOT ioIoW
their Rasters INTO the interior system OF
Tree labor Tor the blacks has been established
ana ceflaln sum per Inonth IS allowed 10
mem 'or tne'r 'epor' nhat ,s tne result nc
Ifio"ne announces lhAt All lhe prosperity
which hrsem'nent'y characterized the Parish
OF 81 Mary ls destroyed ahd the larger por
tioa oi all ths values mere named are o1ilt'
eraied' $50,
Inc ITtGHHe and F" m. Lloyd uarrlson may
nov preach ana speculate az much as they
please, the prosperity OF the parish OF ot
Mary VIII never return under abolition rale
, Inc lower sugar plantations oil Louis'ana
the rice plantations Of Georgia, the eottoT
helds OF the South, wil never be cultivated Il
proht or t TO the advantage oil the world by Tree
/ labor Inc relation oil master ana servant
is needed to produce wealth from those lands