Washington telegraph., 1865-10-04


JAaAIcA-We continue our extracts
from Mr. Anthony Trollop's Travels in
the West indies, ia the year 1883 1t
10 always to be borne in mind, for the
application of the facts for our own gui-
dance, that the book was written by an
abolitionist. predisposed TO support
emancipation, and after twenty years of
faithful experiment. The est ludies
have for US many beacon lights, i'll the
highest degree useful to people about
entering on the same seas:
WHITE MES.-It seems 10 us natural
that white men should hold ascend ency
ever those who are black or cOlored AL
thoug b We have emancipated our own
slaves, and done so much to abolish
slavery elsewhere, nevertheless We re-
gard the negro as born to be a servant.
We DO not realize il TO ourselves that 1t
Is his right to share with us the high
places of the world, aud that il should
lie an affair of individual merit whCther
We wait on his beck or he on ours. We
have never vet brought ourselves so to
,hink. aud probably never shall. Ihey
still are TO Us servile race. Philan-
thropical aboiit;on.sts viii no doubt
deny the truth of this; but | have 10
doubt that the conviction is strong with
them-could they arfalyze their own
convictions-as II is with others.
Where white IN n AID black men are
together. the white will order and the
black Will obey. with an obedience more
or less implicit according to the terms On
which they stand. v hen those terms
ave slavery. tie white men order with
austerity, and the black obey with aac-
rity But such terms have been found
prejudicial To bO;h Each is brutaiized
by the contact The black man becomes
brutal and passive as beast of bu den;
she white man becomes brutal and fe-
rocious as beast of prey.
But there are various other terms on
which they may stand as servants and
masters. There are those well under
stood terms which regulate employment
in England and elsewhere, under which
the poor mnn's tiEle is his money, and
the rich mans capital his certain means
Of obtaining labor. As far as We can
Zee, these terms, if properly carried out,
re the best which human wisdom can
devise for the employment and mainte-
nance of mankind. Here III England
they are not always properly carried out
At an occasional spot or two things will
run rusty for while. There are strikes,
and there are occasional gluts of labor,
Very distressing to the poor man; aud
occasional gluts of the thing lsbored. very
embarrassing to the ch man But on
the whole, seeing that after all the ar
nng mr.It is only human, hsre in Eng
land it does work pretty well. We in
tended no doubt, when we emancipated
our slaves in Jamaica, that the affair
should work in the same way there.
But the terms there at present are as
removed from the English system as they
IRE from the Cuban, AMI are almost as
Shorrent to justice as slavery itselt-as
"horent 70 justice, though certainly
lot SO abhorrent to mercy and hu-
hanity.
What would farmer say in England
'hIs p!oushman declined to work, and
EWested that he preferred going to his
Hster granary and feeding himself
Sa his children on his masters cornl
master, noa; beez alfred thick day.
sad dunno mind to do no workt" Then
IsRcorhouse, my friend. the poorhous-l
~ A1u hardly that; starvation first, max
ss' and all manner of misery. In
S~1 Offact, our friend the ploughman
II i, ,9and work, even though his DER
I a.. bones be tired. as no doubt they
| hI4. ss. He knows it, and does it, and
Il potS.a ,s way is not discontented And is
u: God's ordinancel
1s. gg'dlnance in England and else
H. Outno, so, apparently in jamaica.
sSArte We had devils ordinance in
Mays of slavery; and having rid
ss that, we have still DEVILS