American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1865-11-16
poudenee Of the New York News.

c~IyuH0a-RiUt aud Instruction, Murder, Hapi
hInj0c, Sc,
Correspondence Of the New York News
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Oct. %, 1865.
The cloud has passed over your country Il
lower upon ours. The result of giving rcigr
to the sayagism of the negro is felt in our
beautiful but desolate island. 1t commences
with US, it may end with you. Jamaica is
"to-day the scene of a negro outbreak that
thrcatens q repetition Of the horrors of the
San Domingo instruction.
For som time past, symptoms of insubor-
diaation have been apparent among the
freedmen of this island. Released from
the discipline of compulsory labor, the black
population have, from the hour of emancipa-
ton exhibited a disposition to relapse into
their native barbarism. Their natural disin-
~clination to work, their ignorance and i'm
providence, have long since disordered the
industrial system that depended upon them
for its physical efficiency. Lands were allot-
ted to them for their support, but they lefus-
ed to till them even for the immediate purpose
of sustenance. The plantations went to rnin
the manor houses were deserted and left to
decay, the negroes crowded into the cities
and gave themselves up to incidence, vice
and crime.
Then can your civil war aud the consum-
nation Of the grand project of "universal
freedom that has cost you so fearful a sac.
rifce. We are now beginning to reap some
Of the fruits of that philanthropy as bitter ms
those that you have already tasted. The ne
gro is an apt scholar in any theory that
promises exemption from labor. The stories
Of indulgence and support afforded By your
government TO the freedmen of the South
have reached, with the inevitable exaggera-
tons, the ears Of our shiftless, depraved and
irresponsible black population. They regard
the result Of the struggle in the United States
as an invitation to them to assert the privi-
leEes Of IN equal, if not a superior race.
They too demand Il "Freedmen's Bureau "
to SIMPLY them with food and shelter, and to
secure to them the luxury of existence in
illeness and responsibility. Not content
with immunity from constrained labor, they
have learned to expect, from the consequence
of the "irrepressibIe consctn in your land,
the especial legislation of government for
their benefit and support in the dolce .far nisnts
that is SO acceptable to their nature.
have given you what | conceive to be the
causes Of the outbreak that has turned this
into shambles, and has let loose the
population to the guidance of their fe-
%Tocious instincts, like fends t~hirsting for hui
man blood. The rebellion has broken upon
us Ike a clap Of thunder, so suddenly, and,
as yet, so imperfecrly known in its details,
In this locality, that | am unable to give you
my definite description, without referring to
that still hope may prove untrue.
3utA is certain that the Instruction is wide-
.preai, and seemingly the result of organized
'reparstion It is characterized by atrocities
'c%7olting to human nature. The whites who
fallen into the hands Of these savages !
been doomed 10 slaughter without dis
%inction Of age or sex.
They tear out the tongues of their victims,
ut OF the breasts of women, strange and
nutilate little children, and practice all the
that render the record Of the in
in San Domingo the darkest page
n history. The governor general is justly
harmed, and is taking every measure to sup n
ress the revolt, but the means at his COM !
land are insult cient. He has sent a mail
.eamer to Nassau for troops and men-of- war,
nd also to Halifax for the 18th regiment,
at that place. All is confusion,
Ecitement and dismay. | have neither time
or inclination to repeat the many reports ,
nat are coming in, hoping that they may be
exaggerated. Enough, however, is known to
Istify the governor general in characterizing n
10 movement as q Hrehellion - =
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