The Portland daily press., 1865-11-13
dent that Boston considers the stern sheets as
her position, and will not deprive the rest OF
New England of the honor of rowing the boat
The Insurrection in Jamaica.

The New York World, commenting upon
the late intelligence of negro Instruction IN
Jamaica, points out the events there occurring
as an awful warning of the dangers of negro
equality, and loudly calls on the people of this
country to beware lest they should treat the
emancipated race in their midst better than il
good for them. Precisely what the course is
which the World in this present coniuncture.
wishes to recommend we are unable to per-
"eive. The positions taken from time to time,
by that eccentric journal, are somewhat con-
Trajectory, though the spirit by which it is an
mated shows little variation. A malignant
hatred OF the negro, and disposition to fos-
ter and stimulate that lerocous luminosity
toward him which broke out in the riots of
1853, exhibiting atrocities before which every
thing which has yet come to US from Jamaica
pales into insignifcance, this is the animus
which can always be detected in that paper,
no matter how hypocritically it may pirate of
its being "grieVous to a man of humanity to
see any of his tellow-creatures prove them
selves incapable ofthe wise and decent use of
great opportunities" There is class of per-
sons who are never so compassionate and hu-
name toward the object of their hate as when
they have the knife all ready to deal him IA
tai stab. Unhappily for the World, it is too
well known to deceive anybody by such
stroke of Pecksnifism; its hypocritical shuttle
can awaken only contempt.
In regard to the late lamentable occur
in, 81
has yet come to hand to enable us, or the
World either, to state the real causes which
nave led to the instruction. We have no
hesitation in avowing belief that when the
facts shall have been ascertained, it will be
seen that some grievous wrong, either real OF
iancied. on the part of The whites has aroused
the i'll feeling which has led to this outbreak.
The instruction which in June, 1854, broke
out in Dominica, was caused by the negroes
having mistaken the taking of the census for
an attempt to reduce them again to slavery
Some equally erroneous but also equally exas-
perating impression may have led to the pres
ent disturbance But until we gain some
more perfect knowledge of the facts, we pre-
fer to suspend judgement upon the subject en-
tirely. At present we merely wish to call the
attention of the reader to the line of argument
used by the World, which, if admitted, certain
ly proves quite too much for the purposes of
that paper.
The point made by the World is that the
negro population of Jamaica, having broken
out into rebellion, and kindled the torch of
civil war in the island, are thereby proved to
be wholly unfit for and unworthy ofall the
blessings of civil and political liberty. Now,
if our New York contemporary is content to
adhere to this course Of reasoning and to follow
it out to its legitimate conclusions, we have no
objection, but what is to become of its
southern friends, and their claim to be once
more trusted with the power they abused
They raised rebellion, they kindled confa-
grafton which scorched and burned all over
the land, and compared with whose baleful
glare this Jamaica instruction is but as the
poor flicker of a farthing candle They have
been guilty of cruelties, of perfdies and
breaches oftrust meaner and more atrocious
than these colored imitators of theirs can ev-
er hope to equal; yet we are not aware that
the World has ever argued from such facts
that the whites of the Southern States are I'M
fit to be trusted with civil and political liberty
Consistencyis an excellent thing, choice
thing,-but in the opinion of the World it
would seem to be quite too valuable jewel
for every day wear.