The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-02
REBELLION IN JAMAICA.
r,u 81 tbe New York News.l

KINGSTON, JAMAICA, October @, 1863
The cloud has passed over your coun-
try to lower upon ours. The result OF
giving rein to the savagisim of the ne
gro is felt in our beautiful but desolated
island. IT commences with us, IL may
end with you. Jamaica is to-day the
scene of a negro outbreak that threatens
repetition OF the horrors Of the San
Domingo insurrection.
For some time past, symptoms of in
subordination have been apparent among
the " freedmen" of this island. Re-
leased from the discipline of compulsory
labor, the black population have. from
the hour of emancipation, exhibited
| disposition to relapse into their native
barbarism. Their natural disinclina-
ton to work, their Ignorance and i'm.
| providence, have long since disordered
| the industrial system that depended
| upon them for its physical efficiency.
| Lands were allotted to them for their
support, but they refused to till them
| even for the immediate purposes. of sus-
! tenance. The plantations went to ruin,
| the manor houses were deserted and left
| to decay, the negroes crowded into the
| cities and gave themselves up to indo-
lence, vice and crime.
Then came your civil war and the
consummation of the grand project of
universal freedom" that has cost you
so fearful a sacrifice. We are now be-
ginning to reap some of the fruits of that
1 philanthrophy rs bitter as those that
YOU have already tasted. The negro is
an apt scholar in any theory that prom
ises him exemption from labor. The
stories ofindulgence and support afford
{. ed by your Government to the freedmen
ofthe South have reached, with the in
evitable exaggerations, the ears of our
shiftless deprived and irresponsible
black population. They regard the re-
suit of the struggle in the United States
. as an invitation to them to assert the
privileges of an equal, II not a superior
race. They too demand "Freedman's
{ Bureau" to supply them with 1000
= and shelter, and to secure to them the
! luxury of existence in idleness and IT.
:. responsibility. Not content with I'M
= munity from constrained labor, they
!. have learned to expect, from the conse
e ouence of the "irrepressible conflict" Il
i your land, the especial legislation O
a government for their benefit and SUP
! port in the dolce .fdrntente that is SO &C
a ceptable to their nature.
s Ihave given you what conceive t
e be the cause of the outbreak that ha
|. turned this island into shambles, ant
s has let loose the negro population TO th
! guidance of their ferOcious instincts
S like fiends thirsting for human blood
# The rebellion has broken upon us lik
J. clap of thunder, so suddenly, and, q
a vet, so imperfectly known in its details
in this locality, that / am unable to Civ
you any definite description without re
ferring to reports that / still hope ma
a. prove untrue. But it is certain that IL
4. insurrection is widespread, and, seen
OIL ingly the result of organized prepar
,; ton. 1t is characterized by atrociti
ID revolving to human nature. The whit
y, who have fallen into the hands of the
70 sayages, have been doomed to slaught
,, without distinction of ageor sex. TIT
y tear out the tongues of their lctims, G.
y, offthe breasts of women, strange and m
70 tiIate little children, and practice all Il
pe enormities that render the record of Il
y, insurrection in San Domingo the dar
u est page in history. The Goverho
u General isjustly alarmed, and is takil
VI every measure to suppress the revo
ln but the means at his command a
W insufficient. He has sent mi
ll steamer to Nassau for troops al
NJ men-of-war, and also to Halifax t
OF the Seventeenth regiment, stationed
~ that place. All isconfusion, exciteme
u; and dismay. i have neither time n
as inclination to repeat the many repOI
re that are coming in, hoping that tn
TX NAV be exaggerated. Enough, howevt
u is known to justify the Governor-Gen
~ raj in characterizing the movement as
u rebellion ANTILLES.