Washington telegraph., 1865-09-06
r. G. BRADY,(
PUBLISHER. I
TcoNrrNuRD.I

r,oS-Eight Years IN British Gxi0n6.
f,o,n 184O to 1S4s, t.clssiue;; by Barton
pr.miu,s, planter Of the province.-On
sunday. the Creoles or negroes born in
tho colony bore a smart, easy air. as if
.bov had always worn buckra clothes,
bDt the native Africans made a ludicrous
exhibition on their way to church. One
man had on nothing but hat, and q
substitute for a fig leaf; another nothing
hut the substitute and swallow tailed
coat and gloves. The ladies, with their
short apologies for petticnat, generally
bore umbrellas, not to protect them from
the sun, but for mere ornament. Prior
to the act of emancipation, there was
some restraint on drunkenness, bat now.
Nr Premium says, the scene was altered,
if we are to judge from seeing the roads
on the Christmas holidays strewn with
sleeping men, who had thrown them
selves down, or were thrown down, by
more potent liquor, wherever that might
be- 1t was in vain for the planter to at
tempt to conciliate his laborers, unless
by the assistance of the stipendiary mag
istrate, and we have already seen how
little the planter had to expect from that
quarter. Indeed, says our author, the
feet in our body polite fairly threaten to
become the head, and to regulate the
machine. The man will be master, and
the master what the man pleases. The
English, says Mr.. P, and we think the
same may be said of our American abo-
Htionists, have derived all their ideas of
blackie and of African slavery from that
picture of Sterne's, which is so often re-
peated in schools, and over this fancy
they raise n wall, rs if it was a reality
daily occurring. And, Ike Sterne, too,
their philanthropy and tenderness for the
misfortunes and wrongs Of others are
much more demonstrative in relation to
distant and imaginary objects than to-
wards those that are nearer, or that con-
Germ their own immediate social and do
mestic relations. Mr.. P. declares, that
so far from being crueny treated, the
slave was as well protected, and in the
same way, in his rights, as the servant
was in his Having lived in England
as well as in the colonies. he knew the
value of what he said. His food, cloth
ing, lodging, and garden grounds were
all fixed by law, and officers appointed,
who were independent of the planters, to
see that these provisions in their favor
we're strictly complied with Rigorous
treatment of slave, by any authority
over him. was severely punished; and,
in fact, to such length was it carried,
that it was the universal remark, that it
was better to get into quarrel with q
white than black man.
In 1910, Mr.. Premium remarks, have
seldom seen more than two-thirds of
hose who went to work for the day in
he field before eight o'clock. The young
and strong get through their allotted
work in four hours, and, if much in want
of money, can do three days work in
one. By some it was SO done. If they
perform their tasks as fixed by law, they
90 through with it, but it is always in
adequately done, and left in the most
slovenly condition; if they are blamed
for 50 doing they seek another master
If the overseer complains, Cuffeo looks
him impudently in the face, "Heyi
obusha! you tink da work ne strainin 3"
Already, says Mr.. p, I have abandoned
one-third Of my cultivation, and I shall
be obliged forthwith to give up some
more fields Yesterday I Lad onl y forty
at work, instead of eighty or one hun
dred, my usual gang in furner days.
The upshot, he says, was that, with
iouble expenditure, with half crop,
there must be double prices or ruin
Irish, Portuguese, from Madeira, and
coolies, from India, were tried. With
the former, every evening was Donny-
brook. The papers of the United States
have been Fl led with the accounts of the
Sretched attempts to substitute for. Afri-
can labor the labor of people from Ma
deIra, China, and the East Indies. 1t
las proved more than a failure. The
africans, brought from their daily native
scenes of barbarity and bloedshed, had,
!or many years before their emancipa-
oOn, been humanized, and reclaimed
nom their wildness and idieness; and,
Gearing better than any other of the hu-
nan race the labor and diseases of tropi-
el climates. they were here in the very
situation in which they could be of most
u, use to society and benefit to themselves
Ane substitution of these miserable
whites on plantations, instead of blacks,
\ si 'lle 1t shows very questionable sort
humanity, should satisfy those who
IS0rze upon mere conjectures. and not
aPOn well ascertained facts, that free
Aoor Is not always either best or cheap
~ BY the emancipation of the negro,
'S@oitual feeling of exultation at being
Ie to set at defiance the rule of the
p4le man is e1gendered in his breast.
%1elted to the highestdegree of antago-
su on both sides, and to insubordina-
IN Oh the inferior to the superior class,
-! are expected to work harmoniously
nelr mutual benefit et'Two days
says our author, "a fellow stood up
n M Seanefeld, stretched himself out,
1 ba %sd aloud that all might hear. dis
s,,;.g s,,Sgkno good, me da go fish, o !" and
ns,sIl'9Say shoulde1fbg' his shovel,
1 hin sa y of; few of the rest gazed at
tlnrssa short space, aud one by one
ma Le.. In half an hour there was not
Il G,asI ,slt IN the field" Prompted always
Il &spy Tor advice frop those that are
Il ayT, Q the planter, they are invaria-
II Tat \ sed' to their own injury as well. as
n lie he planter Officers sent out by.
Safs%snf country come fully impressed