, 1865-12-19

Of the negroes in Jamaica and Of their enc
| mics fairly before the world.
| Yours, g., GoLDw1S SMITH.
Oxford, Dec. 2, 1sC5.
conaEkF e. aae Of FNdsH TH NsdK5 RR6s on
From the London Daily Newsl
II but q thousandth part Of such tales as
form the staple of tha Jamaica newspapers-
and which ate narrated with heaEtiest ap-
Plause-are true, hell itself has broke loose
In that wretehed Island. But the demons are
not the blacks, who burst into the sudden
fury Of n single daT, and never af>erward
offered the rcn1otest chow Of resistance.
They n1e the white men, who, for week after
week, have been holding their feast or blood;
who have by form OF law taken fifty lives
for each one that they themselves lost
ueorreeI3oe meo aaee on oadP Pfesence . 1s lsa tn5
barren with extermination, and unin-
habitable with the pesti1ence Of purifying
bodies: who gloat and lest over the fortunes
they iniict ere they mercifully slay who fog
naked women and children; and vino bias
pheme Almighty God with their thanks for
Ills mercles 7ouchsated in delivering their
enemies into their hands. It Is no LONGER hu-
man nature that exists in that lind; =; drunk
with blood and maddened With cruelty, our
soldiers md sailors hare become as wild anf-
mails, and have lost every vestfgc and senti-
ne1't Of humanity, while they handy compli
stricken and fugitive wretches, over a foe
who has mover crossed q sword with them in
nsht, nor ever fred ? musket shot In their
"glor1ous camrafsn.'
This awful business must be stopped If we
would not hare all civilization rise to ezecratc
murders be done while We are Willing 10 hear
the vfndicatfon Of the murdercrs. BIZ the last
accounts more persons Of responsibility, a1-
rested in Kingston, had been ehippcd or to
MIGRANT Bay That they might be brought un-
which murdered AiF. Gordon It docs not |
need knowledge Of 1aw to tell a man thutsu |
acts are against Law. No one, however f9no- !
rant, can help seeing that TO transport psis- |
o9er, captured BY siyil warrant, to place
tribunal, Is q violation Of every principle or |
Justice ind constitutional security. ii that |
fact alone enough Is known to make 1t tho /
duty Of Government Instantly to superscde t
Gov. Eyre. We cannot for moment believe |
that Ministers will feel it right to leave the |
those who have shown themselves 80 unfit to I
bear rule. Inquiry must Of course be made; I
but the most urgent business IS to stop thcse
appalling murders, committed In the uamn Of
tic British Grown. :.
''lFrou ths shef1eld Daily Te1eesaph.1-
:. The news from Jamaica grows more paIn-
faI the more 1t is studied: No documentary t
authority or substantial evidence OF any kind
has Us Jet come to hand Of the alleged plot /
to exterminatc the whites. Poor Gordon
died ayowing his innocence to the last. But-
fetcd, cursed, robbod Of his spcctaeles and
high character and supposed rights as a Brit
ish subject could avail him At q time whca
men mad with false fuInoEs were thfrstinE
for his blood. He declared t1aat the riot At
MoFaut Bay was unexpected on his part, and
his words arc entitled to the weight which is
never denied to the dying uttcrances Of re-
spectacle aud widely respected nun. The
stckcnlng details Of tho brutal treatment to
which he was subjected, and OF the. gles
with which. tho prisoners were subteIeed
death, viii be found in another part Of onr
columns. Nc observe that this Journals which
first hailed the reports or Governor Eyre's !
seventies With high appreciation are begin
ming to be rather ashamed Of their client.
One Of the chief advocates Of vengeance"
backing ont Of the business; and another has
no better defence to otter than to take shelter
under come uncoyrobor1tcd assertions to be
found In the speech Of Governor Eyre. 1t
really seems as II the colonists had gone mad.
Chapel burning, house burning, hoegings Of
of tho press, and q butchezy Of unfesislin.
people carried On, until the towns are faint
with the smell, and the roads numbered with
the bodies Of the dead, are things hfch make
one wonder whether the enacteFs Of such
deeds can be men Of our religion and our
tell us Of things which the planters don't
wish to have known, are stopped, the country
has to rely on the organs Of the planting In
terest ior its Information. It Is well for cur
readers to keep this tact IN mind, for any one
isuurant of It might suppose that our news
Vas compiled from the journals OF men who
were anxious to exhibit the colonlsts as de-
lighting in deyiIries and fcasting their eyes on
spectaclcs fitted for the entertainment Of
tends.
GoRD0S'5 LAST LETTER TO HIS WIFE.
The London Nornfng' 2cr: ct Dec. 1st pub
fishes the touching farewell Latter Of the
marty1ed Gordon, to his wife. Il Il as fol-
lows:
NV beloved Wife :-Genesal Nelson has Jus.
been kfnd enough to inform me that the
court nastia1 on Saturday last has ordered I