Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1865-11-22

lull acCOulliS OF lile outbreak IN Jilaihic
the horrible atrocities which attended
and its final suppression, with the ster
he retribution imposed by the authoriti'
, upon the principals engaged in 1t. 81
Of the accounts heretofore given furnish Il
Of satisfactory explanation Of why and ho'
At il took place at all. The Boston 1hdVel'e
y furnishes the following statement Of tn
m origin of the difficulty;
Of For a great many years the author
Of ties have experienced considerable oppC
sition in attempting to collect the take
Is from the negroes, who are mostly squat
N tiers, holding from two to fifty acres q
II hnd, which, by ordinary industry eoul
n be made valuable, and the natives Secur
v a good living and have plenty TO sell an
}, obtain money TO pay the taxes with
VI The objection to paying taxes date
IS back 10 eighteen hundred and fOrty-on
e and seemed to increase with each year
e ''The tax collector Of the St ThOmas-in
Y the-East Parish, ascertained that Their
/ were a large number Of people who owe'
j back taxes for years, and he was directe,
e 10 visit the parties and collect them
= This part of the island is extremely
2 mountainous, and when the collector
e went there crowd Immediately assem-
7 bled and at once drove him from thai
= locality. He reported the result of hi:
visit TO the Revenue Department, and
then received orders to take a force and
make another attempt. Subsequently
p some Of the negroes made an appeal tO
/ the Magistrates Court, and appeared be-
fore Charles Anthony Price, the magis-
. trate, and denounced the attempts 10 col
: lect taxes from them.
"The magistrate gave positive decision
|, against them. From this Court they APP
pealed to the Superior Magistrates Court,
which was presided over by Baron Won
Kittleboldt This magistrate also gave a
decision similar to that of Justice Price,
and also administered a rebuke to them
for their Incidence, and stated there was
no reason why they should not cultivate
the lands they held, and have money so
that the taxes could be paid, and they
could live more comfortable and have
their condition generally bettered. The
I negroes smarted under this address, and
some disturbance was occasiOned in
Court.
At the next session of the Magis-
/ trates' Court, the opponents again went
/ before Justice Price and renewed their
efforts TO get the taxes abated. He ad-
hered 10 his first decision, which was
.
I the negroes became 50 violent that the
/ officers elected them from the Court. The
regular business of the Court was then
proceeded with, and shortly afterward
smoke was discovered issuing through
cracks in the floor of the room.
"Those in attendance made an effort
90 leave the building and they found that
the doors and windows had been barri-
caded on the outside
The rest Of the shocking progress o
the insurrection-the mutilation, torture
and killing of the magistrates-is known
10 our readers. There is in the occur
rences, a trumpet-tongued lesson of
warning to the fanatical madmen, who
are urging ON manhood equality of
races, as the condition Of a restored Union
between North and South. II, under the
mild sway Of British philanthropy, with
a quarter of a century Of training as
freemen, the black men OF Jamaica rise |
in insurrection and kill the magistrates, |
rather than work to pay their taxes,
what may be expected of the black |
men Of the South, under the
malign influenced evil-minded agita- /
tors? Do these extremists l3ish to
produce war Of races? Is their
hate Of the southern people so intense
that they desire to gloat over the scenes
of St Domingo re-enacted in the South
Ifn not, why do they continue in a course
so well calculated to suggest the attempt
to the minds of the freedmen why con-
tinue 10 mislead them as TO their right to
a division of lands why tolerate their
cmissaries in the satanic work Of foment-
ing prejudice and in-wil between the
two races in the South?
As german to this matter, we clip the
following from the letterof the Washing
ton correspondence of the New York Ne'0s
of the fifteenth instant:
"There Is too mucn reason 10 fear that
this negro insurrectiOn in Jamaica is a
part and the precursor 10 the insurrec-
ton in the South that has been cOntem-
plated by the liberated blacks. These
poor creatures have had their ignorant
and brutal natures so worked upon by
their AbOlitiopist teachers that they had
fully determined on general uprising on
Christmas day. The evidence on this
point is ample and conclusive. All their
were made, and vast guam
titles Of arms We're provided and are st1l
sCureied. IL is not very improbable that
the next meetings Of the negroes here and
in Maryland have reference TO this dia-
bolical designs. Gov. Sharkey and Wells,
Gov. Parsons, Gen. Howard, Gen. Full
leTt5n, Gen CRuby, and several officers
Of the Freedmen's Bureau, have taken
what measures they could to break up
the plot; but there is no reason TO believe
that they have been successful. Pistols
are weapons that are easily concealed,
yet there is no weapon more murdeTOus
and more sure and it is known that
thousands upOn thousands OF Colts re-
vOlvers were sent TO the South between
me months of Nav and October of the
present year. and have there disappeared,
and that tney We're neither ordered nor
by whttepeople. The blind and
grOundless hatred Of the blacks toward
the white people, and the hatred Of the
hundreds of the agents Of the Freed
mems Bureau toward the citizens of the
south, has been intensified hundred
fold since the recent action on the part
of the Government in restoring hundreds
of confiscatedu - estates 10 their rightful
owners. 1t viii require the greatest
vigilance on the part of the local authOTi-
ties, and prompt and decisive action on
the part of the Government to prevent
in the Southern States the bloody scenes
that are now being enacted in jamaica"
We have no appFehensiors that any
such attempt will be made in this region,
or that any such diabolical purpose has
been or will be entertained by the freed
men. As a general thing, there is among
numbers Of them too intelligent an ap-
probation of the advantages of culti-
waiting good understanding with their
white neighbors, and there remains too
kindly a recollection of the humane treat
ment they received from their fuEmer
owners, UnGer IA system called slavery,
but in reality a relation more like the
patriarchal authority over the fam
ily, to render such copspir-
acy highly improbable, if, indeed,
possible as a general thing. Bat there
are many quarters of the South where al
different state Of tAiags exist, and where
it is not improbable evil disposed per-
sons may prompt the poor, credulous
uNSiN 10 us ulNbAAl-s GdiANA " III AG
the mtral responsibility Of those whose
teachings nave melted them, if such oc-
currences do take place, anywhere. 1t is
enough Of evil done to the negro, that by
events aud causes ia which he had no
prompting hand, one million Of his race
have gone down to death, miserably,
within the last four years, without
bringing upon him an syalanhoe OF fur
ther swift destruction.
Day- The ladies are rebelliug against the
winter fashion Ior bonnets. The princi-
pal Of a wholesale millinery house in
New York, says that his customers never
purchased bonnet frames with equal
reluctance. The bgggy tor pattern re-
quires a large amount Of material, and |
makes a very small show for it, More
over, the show, when it is made is aHy |
thing but graceful, TO construct a bon
net over the gig-top frame requires three
fourths of a yard of material, with |
ribbons and lace and flowers dd iRfai-
f,,,3l The EEaaIl bosnets of last SUM- |