The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-02

Uts OF CHst1aDltv by The MISUNDERSTANDING OF IN
theT villages and attending divine service in extremely
beautiful places Of worship erected and supported prin
cipally by their voluntary contributions; ana many
among themselves from their Intelligence ana eouca-
tion MI high departments In their chapeis, and also
become members of public boards, dscharglnS puohc
duties and possessing properties and contribute to the
public taxation of the country. "The majority
arc sober and well behaved There many laborers
engaged IN The cultivation OF several acres producing
sugar WITH considerable advantage TO themselves ana
families There are many who have acquired properly
since 1888 and labor during the week, and ON Sunday
dve eentcey In their gig 70 church chapel and only
the idle and worthless are in abect poverty The peo
pie attention 10 the cultivation OF their own grounds u
the Whole conduct OF the people exhibits as much slao
W as though their leaving the estate was as unlikely 10
happen as during slavery, when it was nearly an mpos
sbls event So much for progress socially Testimony
inst as unquestionabe Settles also: Fourth-That all
properties are cultivated at lower cost than in slavery
that free labor has 10 be cheaper than slave ano
tHh-That no estates had been thrown because tho
peope would not work, or demanded exorbitAnt wages
SixtThat entirely different causes avaed to produce
adverse results Among these FirstIhe worthlessness
oil some properties and their nntDess to be carried on
even even in days Of slavery seccnd-.want OF capital
Third-Want of management and bad management ex-
harsion OF land, the swarms Of agents, &c, "Hisiory
OF West India Missionary to Jamaica, Rev. j.
Reardsee." Fourl-Drought and bad seasons. Fifth
In some parts want of labor seventh-That for many
years before freedom there gradual dimnution IN
Sugar bill OF ls46 helped to increase this downward ten
dency that thcrcupon the islands suffered, and that the
prof'ssness OF slavery SUI attached 10 cultivation the
Kingston Journal Of April 10, 1849, well remarks.
Eiehth-Tbat since freedom, there hos been great
increase in tho value Of imports To make these tally
with the exports, the same paper very properly says
Ninh-But above all, freedom has stepped in to stop
the wholesale sacrifice Of human life. In st.
slaves was three hundred and forty thousand
two hundred and Thirty And in 1898, at the
advent OF Freedom there were only a10,36s; showing
decrease IA years before bondage OF 10 s63
instead OF, as one writer says, increase Of 10000
Slavery there was terrible engine OF evil, continually
demanding and continually receiving moremore for is
murderors purposes II reserved for tho nineteenth
century with its sun at meridian, TO add uDheard
give" and sit is not enoughand that ah in the he'll
OF slavery. We feel could accomplish nothing.
POLITICALLY we cannot do much; but otherwise something
rms e'gantic wrone we saw moving before the ia OF
British law; but srish law restrained by the deepest
religious principle Who would not JOY in ts triumpbss
Its triumphs were the iumphs of that principle. Who
world mol desire that that law might rise monumental
column towering toward heaven It's apex bahed in and
rejecting over all the hills and valleys of that God
Die ssed land Thus has freedom there been bless
ing, and not blight Thus after thirty years trial
Der.y mas met the taunts of her enemies from their
iasyng troats has she cxOred the confession of hope
in her; and thus have they deckcd her brow with
uniding laurels Facts never falsfy, and hcrc they
risc majestic MS their own moun,ains-and az frm-
meeting taunts and jeers with respectful but bold
denial The waters that bea, TIE base OF the blue
Ians emoem'ze the assaults upon the new system of
ifeedoin Tor hundred years and successive floods
tho crests Of ocean, have attempted to hurl the
mountains from their seat but a hundred years
hence the mountain will DE there st-smiling al
Inc INDIGNANT mnrmur Of the reccding, wearcd
waves. And when mon and mountain even, six thou
sand years old shall add spotLer and another six
thousand their years and they shall grain year
have crumblcd down to dust then shah liberty walk
there as here in majesty the goddess OF those islands and
inc hahunaid OF God. tApplaust) Rest Colonel Shaw !;
rest resi- brave brothers o Fort Wagner; from the
storm OF battle and the stcrner storm of hate All il
past now. Ye sleeps but to-day enjoy because of you
ana we come to day to lay our humble tribute on vow
memory. In olden days this cairn was hcaped high
the memorial OF love and hope and honor-hcaped high
by those who survived but car yourselves have
piled up, your great souls ingng their dead bodies in
heaps that We night Climb mp 10 tho high honors and
privileges the national rights and duties Of to-day Ac
cep our thanks Waeucr and O.stcc and rt Hudson mod
A'kcn's Bend; accept our thanks coIcred men, living
and dead for every battle. Oh, sliadowy forms now
passing before ye have lived and did 10 secure
rights and privileges VIC live and die 10 preserve them
Accept our thanks, our brave white Neutrality-suspicious.
one army--brothcrs IN u common cause. Accept our
thanks thou who dds teach the nation emancipation
proclamat ons--Jolm Charles Fremont pathfinder for
General Hunter for proclamation aud organization.
Thanks 10 thee thon bold Of Massachusetts
General benjamin t. Butler. Thanks TO General
Godfrey Wclszcl-to him the only officer who
allowed our brave Louisiana brothers place in
line Of battle aud who thus enabled our brave
black brother, Captain Cainoux, 10 sal their work
with brains and bloodwfh blood as largely even a. his
great heart could furnish it brains and blood the
only seal a soldier knows There that young man.
Sergeant Browthcn, only seventeen years old who up
held the standard I'll he fell then he saysluth INC
over tell my mother died with my face TO the enomy.
And there was tho bravo placchiancho who tore the
old flag from the shattered STAFF 10 save IT, and THIS
rewrotc the worlds history. Nationally, regards the
people OF the land as said Of Kosciusco SO we write
OF him :.
Not vsin alas. no. yain ~ gslan. few
r,, RANK to rank your yoil.d thunder aew.
TSa n os'S Generous "n FRIEND sss SS.
S!re%sh d ,ss arms. nseE'4y i. their xoo
Tearing their banners from the shattered st.
Ersscom s," , her wild s,,rS%
tAppausc) Thank. In this photography for all
the Loo ,lnotypcs the bloody hand Of has created
Thanks to Grant, to sherman, with his prcrdices
and THOMAS ana kos'c'ans aud Csnby Thanks to AL
Thanks to tho Cabinet Of 1868. Thanks TO secretary
Vice President johnson for tho promise Of le adershp
Up from Egypt 20 Canaan Thanks 10 President Lincoln
for leadership from Egypt 10 Tho Wilderness Applause
Four years ago there safe resting place for tho
sole Of foot here You driven seek shelter
under the wing Of monarchy. Like Mrs Barrett Brown.
ing, fugitive slave nj Pilgrim Point who stood with one
foot resting that rock, the tworoo.cd boodhounds
behind and the sea before you. Az mother with babe
ON your arms you stood bowdcred, nnsercd crazcd,
until you tw scd the shawl and smOthtrcd OFT the little
life within u, and acnt II back TO The bosom of It's
God, and then turned 70 cuethe sons OF Tic Pilgrims who
hss landed there There MAS rest for anywlirr'.
Now, the inner man--tis soul itsef-nay feel Itself
grt round and protected by walls of steel Two hundred
thousand hayoncts icnpng NJ, IN the sunlight IN the
hand OF colorcd men, the gica'nc pointed reply 10
the denial Of your manhood or citizenship To-day Tho
black hand dipped In The blood OF rebellion has wiped
out every record against The Wesi Indian freedom
secured only by constant individual and associated
effort began as the result p the OF the ion
against the slavc trade In 1870 The first movement was
made in the British House of Commons In the strength
Of the truth tina, slave trade contrary 20 the
laws OF God End thoughts Of It held in obey
the abolition OF The traffic Then began tho orposi-
ton. The contest grew more earnest. affecting
Church and state until under the gathering exposures
OF VIM. Knibb Grorgc Thompson and others II was
driven accursed from the land and eight hundred thou
sand men and women and children ltod up their hands
TO God unfticrcd and fire. Wilbcrorce and Clarkson
and Granville sharp the pioneer OF that battle
as Benjamin Iundy, Bcniainin Rinneter and william
Lloyd Garrison, and The colorcd boy who worked with
Garrison were the pioneer Of this. The colorci
people then, led of and took part in each
gle Garrison followed ,hc coloed people the coorod
people followed their innate love OF liberty There,
here, insurres tiona we're numerous. Heck men were
gbcted suspicion even for all fell that high and low
were sleeping mine which the most ignorant slave
lcit to fire. Fear Is powerful ally Fear gave us
TWO hundred thousand bayone's Fear gave the
dom We celebrate to-day. Freedom IN the West indies
was Of FIRST only pnrtiat Il complete. The appcn.
tccshp SYSTEM which was TO prepare the slave for free
dom was rejected nj by Angup, ami In four years
by AL on the principle that tho way prepare them for
freedom Is 70 give them freedom We republicans will
learn mat the way TO prepare men to exercise the ecc
i've franchise Is 10 give them the elective franchise Az
leasi certain results DO pointed here in tho West
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