The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-08-03


we find in the Louisville Democrat, we
make the following extracts. Few,
that paper says, s'realize the results OF
emancipation, while many in general
jubilee of rejoicing, look to it us a
grand philanthropic measure to COM
mand the appreciation of the world" !"
Passing on, it says:
There are now in the West Indies
Islands, 10000 square miles of the
most productive land in the most sa-
!ubnous climate in the world, lying
fanow, dcsegt waste, in consequence
OF this measure OF emancipation. The
freed negro basks in idleness and de-
gradatlon in land of Towering beauty
ana frultfulness comparable to the
garden of our. first parents. Broad
ports, IN which navies might ride, are
deserted and empty. Beautiful fields,
over which abundant sugar cane float
ed IN plentiful lavishness, are grown
rank with weeds. The coffee planta-
tlons are deserted, and the precious
bean grows wild in the places where it
once was cultivated. On every side
there IS the mark of ruin and desola-
tlon. The wild grains are the sign of
a, past posterity; the degraded negro
the successor of the enterprising and
vigorous white. This, in an extent of
territory equal to Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi. Cuba takes off i, 200
square miles, and Cuba, where slavery
still exists, is prosperous. With other
deductions, there will remain 81, 600
square miles almost, if not entirely,
uncultivated.
Can any land compare with what
those islands were, and are, to pro-
mote the negro race aud to advance
INN IN the scale of civilization? Can
Imagination paint Il picture more con-
genial to a race sprung and multiply
ing under ''Africs burning sum-" than
IS presented in the one drawn in the
foregoing extract? But it is to results
we must look, and so must ali upon
whom now devolves the responsibility
OF providing for the negro. They are
startling and no less true than Start
ling. TO profit by, let the'reader note
them well:
In 1884, when emancipation took
place, Ia brilliant career of prosperity
was foretold. Let us see what has been
the actual results:
In 1900, the West Indies exported
II, 1000, 600 pounds of cotton, and the
United States 17,6S9,SO3 pounds.
They were at THIS time, it will be seen,
Rearly equally productive.
~Iet us, however, examine one island
-Haytl-where the results of emanci-
patton are best seen. This island is
400 miles in length, with u maximum
width of 163. The number of square
miles is 27,690, of which 1O,O91 are
composed il the Haytien or negro re-
public, and the balance in the Domi
nlc"n. Its population was estimated
from $50, 600 to $4,000. It's climate
and soil is incompatible. The earth
nboumls IN jewels--in precious mine
rails. Gold, silver, copper, iron, tin,
sulphur, rock salt, jasper, marble, are
found.
The islands sit like jewels in the
golden seas. The tall and graceful
palm lifts its fringed top. over plains
OF verdurc starred with rare flowers.
Inc spreading mahogany lifts its dark
shadow over velvet grass that bounds
the borders Of fair, bright rivers.
Birds, with rare brilliant plumace.
flash like CLEANS of light among the
scented foliage. Broad, fertile lagoons
shine among the groves of orange,
cltron and coffee, and every hill and
is rounded into graceful
outline of beauty. To describe the
scenery seems reveling in descriptions
OF poetry and romance. Plantains.
bnnanas, yams, mangroves, millet,
oranges maize, pine apples, melons,
grapes, grow in wild uncultivated
abundance. Cultivation produces cof-
Tee Cocoa, sugar, indigo, cotton and
tobacco.
In 1870, Hayti supplied half of
Europe with sugar. 1t was French
colony, with a population of 500, 900.
OF OF which 3S, 1850 were whites. and
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