The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-04-28
The Late Rebellion I'm Jamaicn

1.-THE following letter, says the New York Ne,pa,
is handed us for publication by gentleman who
has received it. from a relative in Jamaica, who
has q large negro population under his spiritual
care. u TWAS written without view to publica
tion j b.. u'sl, .ss..#. .. ....... ... .~.
OXFORD, April 2.-You ask me for sensible ac.
count or the rebellion and it's putting down. To
experience of the negro character and habits:
rules that would apply to an instructed and indus
trious White population living where there
plicabe to our population. The people are as rule
very barbarous in their notions. They have none
Of the selfrespect or finer feelings, either Of afec
ton or TASTE necessary to self-control or govern
mont, ana are exceedingly cunning and untruthful
to degree, as we'll as Suspicious fn the extreme.
They In were, however, at the same time, considered
by ell as utterly wanting in the power of oreani-
zatlon, and trusted and looked upon as trouble
SON some put % harmless people, at the time the rebel
sueh Ga II the in %d then Of
at the tail end of the island q rebelIiSyn, eblIiy,
utterly ;unproYoked, but that those who
some petty offences were sentenced by bench Of
magistrates, broke out with the most cruel afro
M cities. all the white families being obliged to fly
i1at tJP thear mVes at nlght without even clothing
were barbarously murdered. At this time there
! were but a few hundred soldiers in the whole
lion before unheeded in the rest of the parishea.
now understood In their full sgni6oance when
looked at in the light Of the events Of the day.
ripened into action. From the nature of the peo.
pie they were incapable OF understanding ciemen-
y, Sy, and the only hope of stopping what seemed to
be dangerous rebellion was to make stern exam
pie OF those who had risen in arms against the re
presentatives OF government. This Gov. Eyre did
and for 1t has received, by innumerable addresses
presented from all quarters and every class
the highest appreciation. The stories Circulated
ofeight wells Of dead, OF women ogged, and people
wantonly murdered, have been proved to be abso-
lutte falsehoods, intended to oalumniate Governor
Eyre and the officials. That the people are dsaf-
fected, have notion that the Queen means to
give them all the land for themselves, and has
sent them presents which we are keeping from
them, and consider themselves oppressed because
they find thoy still have to work and can't eat
bread in absolute idleness, I have had abundant
evidence to prove; and when people with such
feelings are worked upon by suoh men as George
W. Gordon, o Thoroughbred demagogue, with
nothing to loose, being over head and oars In debt
and Disgrace; who shut his own father in prison
and nearly beat him to death who got up meetings
all over the leland and harangued the people on
their. grie vances, which existed only in his own
brain, and bid them follow the example of Hayti
when he spoke to them Of the Governor as o bad
man, who was helping the white people to enslave
them--was 1t wonderful that their ignorant minds,
worked up thus to pitch OF excitement, should
burst out into rebellion, and require strong hand
to put 1t down? : If,T' - -