Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-11-18
IL Makes a DIHeremce Whose Ok
II lsOred. #.f

Ia Makes q Difference Wm~se Vx
Ii Gored.
The insurrection In Jamaica, through the
stages OF which the most diabolical OUT
rages were perpetrated by the insurgents
was set on foot by the blacks, because the
British Government refused to pension
them in life of indolence and debauchery,
Short work has been made of some of the
most cannibalstic in this work. They were
hung. and as the rebellion Is considered
suppressed, others of the leaders are held
TO be hereafter disposed of as the peace and
quiet of the country shall seem to demand
while the mass of the rebels are treated to
an amnesty. The summary execution OF
some of the most devilish of the ringiead-
ers In this insurrectlon, appears not ex-
actly to suit our humanitarians who favor
a general hanging OF the Southern people
lately In Rebellion. They cry out, that the
British plead for the bestowal Of mercy
on the discomfltted minority In this coun-
try who sought to take themselves out OF
the Union, while ''mercy Is now an un-
known word in the British vocabulary"
towards "the representatives of the
race which comprises the great major
ity of the population of Jamaica" that
shave exhibited hostility against the
small minority" There is a very mate
rial difference between the oxes, we
take it. The one is white, the other is black.
Who and what are the trace which COM
poses the great majority Of the population
of jamaica that have through their rep
resentatives risen in bloody insurrection
They are of the Negro race. Since 1886
they have enjoyed absolute freedom-have
enjoyed equal political rights with the
White inhabitants. How have they
requited the humanitarlanism that confer
red upon them these privileges? The testi-
mony of the London Times, given twenty
years after these privileges were conferred
is to the point: ...,
"Thereis no blinking the TRUTH" says the
7 London Times; 'years of bitter experience,
years of hopes deferred, Of selt-devOtion
unrequited. of prayers unanswered, OF
sufferings derided, of insults unresented,
OF eontnmely patiently endured, have con-
yiHced us of the truth. 1t must be spoken
ont loudly and energetically, despite the
wild mockings OF "howling can't" :"The
freed West Indian slave will not till the soil
for wages;n the free son of the ex-slave Is
as obstinate as his sire. Twenty
millions of pounds sterling have been dis
titled from the brains and muscles of the
free English laborer. of every degree, to
fashion the West India negro into free,
independent laborer. Free and independent
enough he has become, God knows, but la
borer he is not; and, so far as we can see,
never will be- He will sing hymns and
quote texts, but honest, steady industry he
not only detests. butdespises. Mr.. TrollOpe
tells us that: ''The negro's idea Of emanci-
patton was and is emancipation not from
slavery but from work. To lie in the sun
and eat bread-fruit and yams Is his idea of
being free" To eat, as he says the planter
might Justly exclaim, mot your own yams,
you lazy, do-nothing, thieving darkie; but
my vans; mine, who am being ruined root
and branch, stock and barrel, house ana
homestead, wife and BARNS, because you
won't come and work for me when 1 offer
you due wages; you thieving, do-nothing,
lazy niger"
."'Hush will say the angry philanthro-
pist. 'For the sake of humanity, hush =
will coarse abuse and the calling of names
avail anything? Is he not man and a
brother@ No, my angry philanthropist;
while he will not work and will only steal,
he is neither the one nor the other, In my
estimation. AS for his being brother, that,
we may say, is-fudge; and will call no
professional idler man."
1t is the representatives of this race, who
in Jamaica have requited the effortto make
them the equal of the White race, by TAX
ing the high road to barbarism and be-
cause the British Government would not
relieve them from their share in sustaining
the Government in which they had voice,
they rose in insurrection and massacred
unarmed officials. Whether the summary
mode in which some Of these insurrection-
lists were dealt with, was proper or not,
should have no weight upon our action to-
ward the Southern people who were lately
engaged in the effort to withdraw from the
Union and to set up an independent Gov
ernment; but it is very certain that the
Representatives of a race who by their ac-
tion testify to want Of ajust appreciation
of civilization, who disregard Government
and who illustrate their humanity by cut
ting off heads, cutting out tongues, tearing
out eyes and ripping out the bowels of
women who are looked upon as in any way
identified with the enforcement Of law and
order, should not be calculated to provoke
In our minds strong commiseration for their
tate. f.a rsa1ot arfly .azi. 5.d -
SIr. stanton's Regal Authority.,