Washington telegraph., 1865-07-19

BILE to compete successfully with the slave labor
of Cuba and Louisiana. With general emanci-
patton her colonies will be more upon an equal
ity.-- .-----z
very sagacious Englshman Anthony Troll
lope visited the West Indies i'm 1858, and wrote
a book, replete viii. much interesting matter
for our present consideration. Upon the SUBJ
ject above mentioned he writes as follows:
Ii has been said that sugar is an article which
for its proper production requires slave labor.
That this is absolutely so is certainly not the
fact, for very good sugar is made in Jamaica
without it. That thousands of pounds could be
made with slavesw here only hundreds are made
or, the case may be, are lost-witlotit it, l
do not doubt. The complaint generally resolves
itself to this, that free labcT in Jamaica connot
be commanded that il cannot he had always,
and up to certain given quantity at a certain
moment; that labor is scarce, and therefore high
priced, and that labor being high priced, ne
| gro eau live on half days wages and willnet
therefore work the whole day-wiil not always
work any part of the day at all. seeing that his
vans, his brea dfruit, and his plantaips ready
| TO his hands. But the slaves!-Oh! those were
! the good times! ii" FDoDiH t. 'F
| l hive in another chapter said few words
about the negroes as at present existing in Ja-
| naica Also shall say Jew words as to slave
| ry elsewhere; and viii en1eavor not to repeat
! myself. This much, however, is at least clear
! TO ali men. tha. you cannot eat your cake and
have it. You cannot abolish slavery to ;he in
finite good OF Your souls, your minds, and intel
lects, and yer retain ii for the good of your peck
cts. Seeing that these men are free, it is worse
than useless TO bcgrudge than the use of their
| Freedom ii have means to lie in the sun and
| mediate idle, why, o my worthy taskmaster!
should you expect me to pull out at thy behest
| long reels of cotton, long reels of law jargon,
long reels OF official verhosiy, long reels o. gos-
| samer literatnre-Why. indeed Not having
| means SO to lie. / do pull out the reels, taking
| such wages as can get and am thankful. But
| my friend and brother over there, my skin-pol-
| ished, shining, oi7tnt negro, is a richer man
| than J. He lies under his mango-tree, and eats
the luscious fruit in the sum- he sends his black
IIrehin up for breadtruit, and behold the FAM
lily table is spread. He pierces cocoa-nut, and
| 10. there is his beverage. He lies GU the grass
surrounded by oranges, bananas, and pine ap-
pies Oh, my hard taskmaster of the sugar
mill, is he not better of than thoui why should
he work at thy order! mo, massa, me weak
in me belly; me no worllee to-day; me like
workee Just 'em little moment" Yes, Sambo
has learned to have his own way; though hardly
learned to claim his rightwithout lying. -al
That is all bad-bad nearly as bad can be-
bad perhaps as anything short of slavery, all
men win allow. 1t will be quite as bad in the
long run for the negro as for the white man
worse, indeed, for tie white man will by degrees
wash his hands OF the whole concern. But as
matters are, one cannot wonder that the black
man will not work. The questions stands thus:
cannot he be made TO do sol Can il not be con-
trived that he shall be free, free as is the Eng
lishHan, and yet compelled, as is the English
man, to eat his bread in the sweat Of his brow7
utterly diSbeleve in statistics as a science,
and am never myself guidedb by any long-winded
statement of figures from Chancellor of the
ExcheGuer or such like big-wig. To my mind
it is an hallucinalion- Such statements ars
''ignes fatui." Figures, when they go beyond
six in number, represent TO me not facts, out
dreams, or sometimes wors.. than dreams |
have therefore no right myself TO offer statistics
to the reader. But il was stated in the census
taken in ls44 that there were sixteen thousand
white people in the island, and about three hun
dred thousand blacks. There were also about
seventy thousand eolored people. Putting aside
for the moment the latter as a middle class and
regarding she black the free servants of the
white. one would say that labor should not be
so deficient. But what, if your free servants
don't work; unfortunately know how TO live
without workingl
The political question that presses upon me
in viewing Jamaica. is certainly this-Will the
growth o! suS a pay ia Jamaica, or will il notl
| have already stated my conviction that
change is now taking place in the very blood
and nature of the men who ale destined to be
the dominant classes in these western tropical
l,tiIu ulss. That the white man, the white Eng
lishman or white English Creole, will ever again
be thoroughly successful sugar grower in ia
maica / do not b-iieye. That the brown man
may be so is very probable; but great changes
must first be made in the countries around him
While she peculiar institution" exists in Ca
ba, Brazil, Porto Rico and the Southern States,
1t cannot think, come TO pass. A plentiful
crop in Cuba may in any year bring sugar TO a
price which will give no return whatever TO the
Jamaica grower. spare crop in Jamaica it,
self Will have the same result and there are ma
! ny causes for the spare crops; drought, for in
stance, and floods, and abounding rats, and want
OF capital 10 renew and manure the plants. AT
presen; the trade will only give in good years
fair profit to those who have purchased their
lands aimcst for nothing. A trade that cannot
stand many misfortunps can hardly exist pros
perousy. This trade has stood very many; but
doubt whether il can stand more. i.... "a
The peculiar institution" ;" however will not
live for es er The time must come when abo-
litisn will be popular even in Louisiana And
when 1t is law there, il will be tie law in Cuba
also. 1T that day shall have arrived before the
last sugar in the island shall have been
stopped, Jamaica may then compete with otker.
Tree countries. The world will not do without
sugar, let it be produced by slaves or free men.
',at N"N~ d iHs-H MAY Scntt!cl 10 loIeteil ShS
! abolition of slavery in the States, and yet call
himself no prophet, he must be wiser man
than who can ioretcll the time. II will hard
ly be tomorrow nor yet the next day. 1t will
scarcely coms SO that we may see it. Before it
does come i may easily be that the last. sugar
mill in poor Jamaica will in truth have stopped.
IJ The State government at Little Rock
Stems to hang fire. and does not readily oet H.
self under way. We learn that a movement is