Washington telegraph., 1865-09-13

medlately operated as q bounty on the
Portuguese and Spanish slave trade, and
to all kinds of slave grown sugar! 1t
was deliverance from which they could
not extricate themselves. But home
proprietors and mortgages being no
longer interested since the paymeDt of
the 100000, 600. which mostly went to
| satisfy his claims, John Bull was now
willing enough to have cheap sugar
yea, even slave grown sugar-though it
did favor the African slave trade, bv
which he no longer turned penny. So
muchfor that wisdom which is taught by
bigotry and mistaken humanity; for
thus, while England is compelled by the
progress of the age, and the necessities
of her people, to adopt a wise course of
commercial policy, the very act which so
much contributes to the welfare and me-
cessities of her people at home gives the
coup dc grace to those unfortunate colo
nists who are in the hands of the mother
country what dogs and cats are in the
hands of the professors of a college of
surgery-mere subjects of experiments
for the benefit of the human race. Bear
like" says Mr.. Premium, ''we are tied
to the stake, and bear-like we must fight
it out or perish - ALAS! they cannot
leave their doomed fields, where once
they enjoyed wealth and happiness The
struggle must continue till, one by one,
their destiny be accomplished; and the
creditor, who has seized ON the last far
| thing has in time to run the same course
and meet the same fatal termination"
Was ever people SO condemned. SO
scorned, so injured, so irreparably ruined
by one that claims to be its parent coun-
try, as these unfortunate colonists Such
parent country can only be compared
to the beast that eats its young. IL
never" says Mr.. Premium, with good
reason, "felt before so moved by indig-
nation, never before believed TINT great
empire, calling itself the champion and
supporter of freedom and of tie weak.
could thus trample under foot the rights
of both, adding, at the same time, to
monstrous injuries sconful disregard
of the feelings, as well as the almost sup
pliant-like remonstrances of the colonists,
defy the most laborious and indefati-
gable searcher for precedents to find, in
the history of the world, a case of more
cruel oppression, or any rebellion which
was based OH better grounds. What was
the taxation Of America to this The
| seizure of a fraction i'll comparison to
the whole I" ...----r -..-
To expect coolness from planter un-
der such circumstances, or under similar
aggressions, is like looking for smiles
when the pistol of the robber is applied
to the head eff one whose pockets are be-
ing picked. Mr. Buxton, (Massa Bus
ton, as the negroes called him,) declared
in the House of Commons that the well
fare of the British planter was now m
plete-that now his slaves were free he
would be better able to compete with
every rival he had in the world, and the
cheers from the wiseacres of every part
of the House proclaimed this death war
rant as boon to the unfortunate and
hapless planter, and their fears were
derided as they were in 1888, when they
urged a just compensation for their land
ed property. after being deprived Of
their laborers. Acting on foregone
conclusion, it was clear TO these people
in their madness that the planters must
be bettered by measures which thay
were SO foolishly opposed to. Since '3S,
when the negroes were declared entirely
free, the expenses, Mr.. Premium assures
US, had increased fourfold, while the
means of support have thus been removed
The current expenses of the province had
now risen from Gao. 900, in 1881, to fully
100000 in 1S46. The extensive hos
pitals, teachers and catechists maintained
at enormous expense for the benefit of
the emancipated classes; more than sixty
clergyman and a host of schoolmasters,
for population of 10000; civil list
much increased; last of all, numerous
and highly paid police, together with
new goals and penal settlements, rendered
necessary by the disorganized state of
society, vastly added to the burden of
the planter. Mr.. Premium tells us that
even Lord Stanley, now Lerd Derby,
while colonial secretary, acknowledged
in the House of Lords that, in conse-
quence of the reduction of their exports
the colony was not in a prosperous con-
dition, though it has been the habit of
the officials of England to represent the
great success of the emancipation act
Since Lord Stanley's time, Mr.. Premium
declares, that up to the latest period mis-
representation of the condition of the
colonies to Parliament and the country
has been systematically observed ave
have been like men bound hand and foot
and thrown into a stream, while our
countrymen stand quietly on the bank
and allow US to sink" On every side,
fields formerly beautiful in the deep green
luxuriance of tho cane, are now covered
with sour grass and weeds; and build
ings mouldering in decay are now the
solitary dwellings of tropical serpents
and creeping reptiles. which formerly
sent forth volumes Of smoke that indi-
Gated the industry and prosperity Of the
land. The most eager disputes occur
every day in relation to work and wages.
Too ignorant to make his own calcula-
tons, though every pains is taken by
the fieemcn and overseer to prevent mis-
take or injustice, the jealousy of the la
borer is such that he suspects cheating
and trickery in everything; and there
is, in consequence, no limit to violent
abuse on one side. and to patient endu-
rance on the other. until the magistrate
is ultimately called upon to decide. OBJ