Washington telegraph., 1865-09-13
r. G.. BRADY,(
PUBLISHER.
ICoNTINUED.1

PRACTICAL OF HMANCIPA-I
ytoN-Eight Years in British Guiana,
from 1S40 to 1913, inclusice; Jy Barton
premiaa, u planter Of tie ,proUince.-l
Ioauary |, 1S43.-" The same increasing
downward tendency" Crop I52 hogs
heads, and $4,000 gallons of rum Loss
on it eeI 935. Not one of eight nearest
plantations had any clear income from
the crop of 1912 The highest amount
of loss was $4,000 (and the lowest
$3.50, which was the condition of one
that had been one of the most valuable,
belonging to Mr.. Ridley, Three ffths
of the direct outlay was paid in wages,
besides the expenses they were at for
houses to lodge these iaborers, doctors
bills, &c; for Mr. ?. says he still con-
tinued, as others did, to employ medi-
cal man, at his own expense, for the ben
eft of the negroes -si.a0p I.a
Field after field was abandoned, until
only small proportion now remained
cultivated. There" says Mr.. p, sis
poor old Blank, few years ago worth
hundreds of thousands, creeping about
like the shadow of his former self; and
/ could name more" And all that
we have shown will not satisfy
some minds of the fallacy of the
theory that has obtained with orators on
political economy, that free labor is, in
all cases, cheaper and more profitable
than slave labor. The Coolie, the Irish,
the Portuguese, and the Chinese expert
ments. all prove that the opinion is not
based upon actual experiments, but upon
the assumptions of sickly philanthro-
py. Under certain circumstances free
labor may be the cheapest, and it is
equally clear that slave labor can alone
Lo successfully applied under other cir
eumstances. Attracted towards the
United States, even white superintend-
eats became difficult to procure. The bad
work of 1912, produced that year, the
worst crop since MIR. P.'s residence in
the province. He refusing, for while,
10 pay for tasks improperly done; at the
end OF the month, two-thirds of his gang
left him. He gives the average crops
for fftren years. That previously to
1888 to 1910, Ii; and from 1910 to ~,
inclusive, barely one hogshead TIE last
gears yieidiag, BY ITSELF dOes not gice
mare tta@ three quarters Of hogsAead
Much is said about marriage and the
sacred rights of family among the slaves,
and it is supposed that emancipation
will mend the matter. But the free ne
grOes show great aversion to marriage,
and if married, in such a low class of
society, how are these sacred rights to be
enforced "Marry no for nigga t all
da buckra fashun" Such is their ex-
pressions, and when they do 90 through
the ceremony; for show e, of which
negroes are very fond. it is an idle form,
for they readily separate and take new
mates. And such is the indilference 10
the fate of each other, that too many
have seen their nearest relatives expire
without being at the expense of paying
Tor single visit to them. They will
call in n physician for themselves when
alarmed, bat for those depending on them
their aged and infirm relations-they
will not be at the expense, although death
must inevitably ensue. Even with their
childrens' lives they daily, in the same
manner, so that 1t is not going too far to
say that many are annually lost in con-
sequence of this apathy, accompanied
with disinclination to part with money
pleasures. So much accustomed have
they been to look to the whites for eve
rything in sickness, that they thought
the rrfUsal 10 pay the docter great
hardship, and even complaints, in some
Instances, were lodged with the magis-
aes against their employers. In one
village, eighteen children died of whoop-
ing-cough, not one of whom was visited
eya doctor. Able to earn i'll couple of
days the necessary means for a week,
they cannot toll the other four. There
IS no white man in the province who is
eontented, or who does not look wretch
ed save those on the civil list. Having
passions, these latter look with philO-
Sophlcal indifference, or even effrontery,
at the sutferings and discomfort Of all the
rest The press is corrupt and entirely
devoted to government, and these bane-
Ill newspapers are read in England as
the truthful organs of public opinion
there. The radical or liberal papers, as
they call themselves, are the worst, and
10 all they can to put down the planters;
and 1t is this party that has infused their
spirit INTO the abolition party of our
--NA-- '1IeAtcSS elIAU With lI all Cne1r agra
nan and red republican ideas, which al
Il; nG;ady threaten the welfare of our Union.
There, too, as here, the clergynen of
3any sects have been extremely mis-
yyneyous in their Interference; the Wes-
cyan Methodist constituted an only, but
3oAorable exception, and always con-
Sacted themselves so as to command the
sSpect Of the community. The retailers
S1aerally from the old countries, if not
s@a'ers or mortgages themselves, were
s'nsfallY inimical to the planter. And
a ct London could be more ignorant
n :IGnS the rural districts of England,
S~e ~'ae Georgetown cockney (the largest
/ p,,@ p@ Demerara,) concerning what is
! sD5 5'l$ .l$ on the plantations of that colony;
4 tas.s eAls will account for the strange ex-
/ slonsn.n nIon letters which appear occa-
l Vson y IN the English newspapers-just
II Ia e Of the same class misrspresent
ses ol.aern planter in their correspond
With their northern friends or north
ION 'G1ly, 1s43, the diminution of labor
&un We withdrawal of many people
h ,Aeld work beoau tn he most spyere-