The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1865-12-20
The Rebellion in Jamaica.

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| Rebellion in Jamaica! History repeat
ling itself! Experience addressing mankint
in the words of prophecy!
Freedom forcing BY the hotbed agen
cies Of fanatical abolition is no experiment
In Hayti it struck the letters, of the hack
ncyed metaphor, from the limbs OF the
black. Slavery went down in that island
drenched in blood. From q scene Of horror
unknown since the beginning of civiliza
ton the world saw arise there Repub
lie" full fiedeed, in all the glories of suffrage
But, in that case, what of the freedman 2
All! how fine are those lights Of political
theory which play like glory around his
head as he lies in the shade, sleeping away
luxuriantly all the long hours of that vege'
tating sunshine! Sitting under his vine
and fig tree, so "free" is he that from that
day to this, he has disdained to put forth
his hand to gather even the leaves OF that
fig tree in order to make any of your artiti.
cial encumbrances for the freedom OF his
limbs! So free is he that he rises to the
height of political beatitude, unknown
even to the very Hottest theories of liberty
! in his contempt for work, while the vine at
his hand yields him, for the pulling, pulps
and jaices sufficient for the sustenance Of
his luxuriant life!
But the Hayden negro, with work be-
meath his dignity, has special stomach for
war. He rose in bloody instructions; and
ever since has employed every opportunity
for continuing that process of rising. While
of the fairest lands OF the tropics, has
own around him into lair for the wild
4 st since his emancipation, the negro OF
.I;'yti has la5orcd through dozen peyola-
lions to destroy everything living, white
end black and yellow, within the range OF
his bloody passions! Such have been the
political workings Of abolition among the
unfortunate blacks Of Hayti!
In Jamaica the blacks woke up one morn
ing and found themselves to be what con-
vcntial cant terms "free" And in what
respect have their cause differed morally
from that of the blacks of Hayti! Like the
lilies of the field, these sweet smelling flow
ers of the humanitarians toll not neither do
they spin! Wherefore, indeed. should they
spin when the warmth Of their favored land
saves them from the necessities, which civ
ilization calls decencies, as covering for the
limbs in this chilly North? And their
food? Bless you, it leaps up through their
teeming soil, covers tie surface in rich,
round succulents; and all on the simple
condition that the emancipated negro Of
Jamaica shall for but few days in the year
invade his freedom" to idle and debauch
in paradise of luxuriant ease, unknown to
the slavery which the white folks call Stree
DOM Ia ha! Yaw! yaw! dis niger,
holding the Northern prediction for pant
aloops in contempt, lubs Liberty and spon-
tapsoaS pumpkin!
The moroJ result of abolition we havs.
seen in Hayti, we have seen in Jamiass
The analogy of things holds certainly frog
the moral to the political, and we might
reason, therefore, from the history of Hayt.
to the fact of instruction in Jamaics,,
The confirmation ofthat reasoning by az
tual facts announced yesterday, is but a
sequence inherent in things; and now that
the sequence comes to us under the record
|of history, we may look onward to the con-
clusion that following still further in the
course marked out for it by experience in
Hayti: the fature ofJamiaca is one ofrey0-
luton, massacre, ruin s
Shall the Southern States of this Union
be marked by the historical sequence of
abolition F? Shall the people ofthe South
white, Or black, be subjected to the horrors
of negro supremacy? In Hayti, in Jamia-
ca, we see what that results in; shall we
give up onehalf of this fair continent of
ours to the untold horrors which, history
even now declares to us from the West In
dies, follow in the train of the theories OF
abolition For their own sakes, for tl.a
sake of the Southern whites, for the SAX
of the people of this Union, for the sake G.
humanity and of God, away with those theo7
res of suffrage that threaten the abandon
ment of another of the fairest regions of
the earth to the bloody anarchy Of negro
domination!-[Neg York News.
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