The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-10-27

Is that the British West Indies were ruined.
completely ruined, by emancipation. and
it was only by the introduction of slavery
under and more enerous form that in the
last few years some change has been effect
ed. Take Jamaica. In 1889, the first
year Of, complete emancipation the sugar
crop exported from the Island fell off 1856
hogsheads, and the amount of coffee, 49,
6b4 cwt., about one third of the whole
amount of the preceding year. In 1916
the number of sugar estates totally ADAM
doned amounted 1853, partially abandoned,
63, assessed In 1S41 at eight millions and
q half dollars. An eye witness says: "the
marks of decay abound; neglected fields,
crumbling houses, fragmentary fences are
common sights" CSee Bigelows notes on
Jamaica.) The British Government ap-
pointed select committee in 1912 with
Lord STANLEY at their head, and another
in 1848 with Lord GEORGE BERT1NoK, as
Chairman, to ascertain the real state of
things in her West India colonies, and the
reports of both committees give picture
of distress, decay, and want, unexampled.
And st. Domingo! Every one still re-
members, with thrill of horror, how the
entire white population soon melted, like
successive fakes of snow in the furnace of
that freedom which q RoBEsPIRRRR had
kindled. "The Negroes" says ALISON,
"marched with spiked infants on their
spears instead of colors; they sawed asun-
der the male prisoners, and violated the
females on the dead bodies of their hus-
bands" And this was the first act in the
grand drama of Haytien freedom.
In 1889 the sugar exported was 672, 000,-
600 pounds; in 1906 it was 47,516,5S1
pounds; in 1925 it was 1920 pounds; in
1882 it was opounds, and "there appears
every reason to apprehend, I" says JAMES
FRANKLIN, s'that it will recede into irrecov-
cradle insigni6cance, poverty, and disor-
DER" ."
But We will not insult the intelligence of
the reader farther. We could fill vol
ume with the results of the glorious act
of British emancipation" When LUuFER,
the great bearer of light, himself was free,
he sought equality with GoD, and thence
became q hateful, Kissing serpent in the
dust. But he was not fully cursed until,
"b by devilish art, he reached "t the organs
Of mans fancy, and with them forged the
grand illusion that equality alone is free
dom, and turned COPS Paradise itself into
q blighted world.
We dismiss DoNNRILY and his best
speech" God knows we have no desire to
pry into his private matters either social
or pecuniary. Excuse US from disturbing
that cesspool. But we trust for the honor
and credit of the State that We may here
after send to Washington, if not men Of
talent, at least some one who can pass from
Minnesota to the Capital of the nation
without being under the necessity ofplead-
ing his congressional privilege to save him
self from arrest.
Since writing the above, We have
learned that the Democrat converted by
the argument and eloquenoe Of DoNHE1LY
mentioned by the Press isthe Hon. PHILIP
DE- RouoHzBoURNB, of this city. We re-
ract what we have said above, and tender
the asnende honorable. Itmust have been
q powerful argument to have convinced 30
forcible and original thinker Is We know
MI. Der. to be.