Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1865-12-06
From the Chicago Times.
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The planters are IN possession Of the
Government. They make laws, and
those laws are all for their own interest.
The negroes Of the island were emanci-
mated in eighteen hundred and thirty
eight, and since there has been q com
slant war between them and the plan
tiers. The negro has beer vainly seeking
civil rights the planter denying them.
The negro has been seeking the right to
make n eentrsct and have Il enforced
the planters have been engaged in de-
feating this, anzi in placing the negro 40
their mercy. The negro has had 10
sfrqlprle against the most adverse
circumstance. The race has not, in
its freedom, lost its prolific nature,
and the eolOred population has in
creased largely. In addition 10 this, the
planters have for year been introducing
coolies. Notwithstanding the fact that
these die after ashOrt residence, the num-
Der is kept up by constant importation
The native negro has TO contend for en-
plOyment against the cooley, who IS
nothing else than a slave, n against
laws which deny him any redress against
| the dishonesty or bad faith Of the planters.
The latter retain practically the pih
slaVehOiding notion that the negro u
only fitted for slavery, and their legisla-
ton is directed not 10 b improvement
of the race, morally or intellectually but
10 their deeper degradation
The above. from the junior Abolition
newspaper concern Of this city, contains
about as many misrepresentation or
/ downright falsehOOds as it does lines.
In truth, the lessons Of the late Jamaica
insurreetion are p~regnantwith arguments
against the very policy into which Black
Repubheanism is seeking 10 force the
1 United States. To escape these, there is
no resource except in evasion or nil
statement.
Jamaica, I'M eighteen hundred and
thirty-eight, reached, through different
causes, the same results with which this
country finds Itself possessed at the pres
ent moment. The slaves were emanci-
pated, and they were at once allowed
liberal rights. In fact, the freedmen OF
Jamaica were placed on a theoretical
equality with the whites, the only real
impeachment TO their progress being
their natural incapacity. Negroes filled
the army and constituted the entire POI
lice force Of the island. They were az
fOFded a school system, were admitted to
practice in the law courts, they filed the
pulpit, and had their representatives
among the newspapers. In short, every
possible facility was afforded them TO ac-
quire property, and to become equal in
every political respect with the white liz
habiJants.
The result Is so well known that its re-
capitulatiOn is stale. The island sank 81
once from first class prOductiveness u
fifteenth rate. Left to himself, the Negro
sank into idleness and pauperism. FL
would neither cultivate his own and MOI
labor for Others. As slaves, the negroes
had sufticed to make Jamica the most
productive country, in proportion to is
area, on he globe as freedmen, they
sank the productive capacity Of the
island to. nearly zero, and the white pro
prietOrs were forced to import coolies e
carry on their plantations.
Such was the condition of Jamaica last
spring. The negroes idle, imDrovident
the whites dependent for labor upon
Asiatic immigration. It was at this time
that Jamaica gave birth to some Sumner.
and Phillipses. They assured the negro
that his pauperism was not the result o
his own idleness, but of the exactions o
the white race. Excited by these teach
ings, the negroes attempted, by insurrec.
ton, massacres and unparalleled atroci.
ties TO obtain an equality which they had
failed 70 secure By pacific competition.
Under the teachings of sumner. CARR
son, Philips, snd an abolition press. 0
which the two journals in this city ART
representatives, this country, II they be
listened to, will follow exactly the foot.
steps of Jamaica. Already all Southern
planters, driventO schemes for the imDor-
tatiOn OF coolies or of foreign white labor,
ers, for the reason that the freedmen, as q
general thing, cannot be induced q
labor. Already are instructions feared
from negroes, who attribute their III
success, in competition with the white
race, 70 the tyranny Of the latter.
Everything promises well for a repro
duction OF Jamaica upon the sol! of the
United States, should the Radical man
ayers of AbOlitiOnism secure their ends.