Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-12-05
Negro Suffrage and the TeachingE
of Ihe Jamaica InsurrectiOn.

Ol GhAe fIHAttlCth AAAuEECCbOhs
The teachings of the late diabolical,
atrocities committed by the negro insur-
rectionists in Jamaica should not be lost n
upon those Incorporate radicals in our own 81
country who are endeavoring 70 elevate the
negro beyond the sphere the Creator in-
tended him to occupy. They should serve 4"
to them as terrible warning of what may %
occur here, and what bloody scenes may be- =
enacted in our midst, especially in the
Southern portion of the country. if they
persist in their designs; and TO what a
fearful accountability they will be held if
they refuse to listen TO the counsels OF rea-
son and learn nothing from present occur,
| rences. ..... i.r. ......
| In the case of the Jamaica butcheries we
!. perceive that the "brown mau," GOrdOn,d y
| possessed OF an intelligence beyond the or-n
dinary standard of the black man or negro, 4,
and entertaining degree of terocitY and
| vindictiveness only found in the latter race
/ wien in their most savage state, was. the Z
! leader of the assassins, and had been ele-
vated to "a responsible official position by
i the votes of the Inhabitants of Jamaica,
where Negro Suffrage. or Negro Equality,is
| legally recognized. Restless and ambitious, .
he inhamed the minds of his ignorant fol-
lowers, Just as Wendell Phillips, Cheever,
] Garrison and other negro agitators are do
/ ing at this day in our country, and awaken )
ed the revengeful passions OF the ignorant
blacks to an nextent that knew no bounds
The blood curdes as the record of the bar
barities committed is read. We see here
what the history of st. Domingo aud at
tempted slave Instructions in other por-
tions. of the continent have already shown
another instance of the utmost incapacity
OF the negro race for elt-gOvernment.--,
Their normal and natural condition is that
of dependents. In the South the great
mass of them are more helpless and improv-
ident than the merest children. AS a race,
if an effort is made to elevate them, to be-
stow upon them the rights and privileges
of white men, they return to their natural
instincts of barbarism or rutterhelplessness, %
and become burden and pest in what o
ever community they may reside in any
number. 1t is true there are executions to
this rule; but we refer to the present
wretched condition of the masses of
the Southern negroes, to the newly
gorged gibbets OF Jamaica, to the SAN
culinary massacres of both jamaica and 1
st. Domingo, for evidence that our asser-d d
tion can be substantiated. What must be
the result to the entire race ii such brown
men as Gordon and Fred. Douglass, and
such "white men with black hearts, as we
have named, shall be permitted to continue
the agitation of the subject of Negro
Equality? In the first place, we shall sees
the whites in the West Indies open
ing war of determination against
the blacks, and in our country we shall see
every Southern plantation and roadside,
covered with the graves of negroes or their
uncOffined corpses. They are dying so fast
there now of starvation and exposure that
the hlinane planters cannot care for them
or their dead bodies. What folly it is to
talk to hundreds OF, thousands of miserable
beings like these about freedom and equal