The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-11-20

bold Fenians that they have met with no ordinafS
adversary, and that the world win witness NO
s-a,n~ conflict The only doubts in our mind
s.a. ~ latter are whether we shall re-
ouire ! Homer Or a h.. dibras to do justice to
the combatants, and whether our o'0' VIII
need horse or telegraph to keep up with no no
Chevalier Raymond's rapid movements.
Radical Doctrines I'm the West Indies
and I'm the United States-Thcir Conse-
quenceS.
By the late news from Jamaica the public may
once moro see Of what atrocities Infatuated ne
groes are capable. Murders, butcheries Of the
most horrible description we're the jcsts, the
pleasantries, the pastimes of the maddened
wretchcs- All the inconceivable cruelty of cow
ardly race was concentrated in this revolt No
account Of q war dance and feast in Central
Africa-no account of vanqnished negroes Of
ONE tribe, burned by the hundred or thousand
for the pleasure of victorious negroes Of en-
other tribe is filled with more intense or terrible
barbasity than the simple accounts Of the acts
of these Jamaica negroes. Hithestoit has been
the fashion to say that acts Of a kindred eharscs
ter were the results Of slGvery-that slaves
getting the upper; band for time, vented upon
the whites only their revenge for years Of hlr
treatment that made their atrocities seem q.
shade less frightful. But that cannot be said
here. This was not question Of slavery or
freedom. Let this country take notice that the
question which excited these Jamaica aenda
was q question of social status and political
rights. Let the people take notice also thas
the negroes were quiet enough-content with
what they had; that they did not agitate,
though free; that they made no noise at
all but that all the noise was made by
white men-whte men, miscreant demagogues,
clamored for negro rights, though they did not
care filbert for the negroes; but this noise
excited the black race, and brought on these
butcheries. Only ambitious white men are re-
sponsible for it all; and the prime mover said
an hour before he was hanged, "If ever get
out of this I'll never NEEDLE with politics
again."
In Hayti there is now in progress between
various portions of the people another chapter
of the war that has ragged there almost without
cessation ever since white demagogues in that
island also put the notion of perfect equality
with the white man into the heads Of the ne
groes. Upon the establishment of the French
republic ST. Domingo was quiet enough,
and the Frenchmen on that island adopted tho
principles of the republic. It seemed that they
were to have their emancipation from the an
cient tyranny without any Of the terrors that
accompanied the change in France. But there
were men in ST. Domingo not satisfied with
the result They were radicals. They wanted
to carry the change little further than others
would venture to carry it. They whispered to
the free mulattoes, "You have rights also; do
mand them, and we viii help YOU" They
uttered just such crazy harangues AZ
Wendell Phillips utters now and then, and
SO they started the storm. The clam0r
was begun with the free mulattoes, it extended
to the slaves, and it brought on the massacre
that almost annihilated the white population ,
and that is not done with yet, though there has
been black republic and empire, too, as tho
result
We have in our own country all the elements
of just such terrible occurrences as the St. Do
ming0 massacre and this later butchery in
Jamaica. We have throughout the South
white population, made up in great measure
of women and children-able-bOdied men be-
ing especially scarce We have there an IN
settled population of ignorant, brutal, cruel
negroes, and we have miscreant party OF
white dcmagogues preaching to these negroes
the very doctrines that brought on the inssr-
rcctions and revolis In the West Indies Shall
we have a war of races too, with its horrors OF
murder and mutilation! What else can the
country expect if the radicals are permitted TO
60 on and carry out the programme and the
theories tina, they announce through the radi-
cal press aud through such orators as Wendell
PhillinsY