Marshall County Republican., 1866-01-04
THEHORRORS OFJAMAICA.

When the frs: vague news OF the troubles in
Jamiica reached this country tho CONSERVATIVE"
or Tory papers. with malignant eagerness, hasten
cd to decls that the massacres by the blacks,
which they insisted were going on in that island,
were but another proof OF the total incapacity of
the colored race for civilization, and that We
might see in Jamaica what We had TO expect if we
treated as human beings men whom We have al.
ways de.pised and outraged. But now that the
truth Of the jamaica massacrcs appears those pa.
pers are silent. Now that by the confessions of
the official reports OF she English authorities the
selves il is impossible to calumniate the unfortun
ate colored the CONSERVATIVE press is silent
Now that it is plain that the massacres in Jamaica
were the work OF men OF the same color as those
who perpetrated the slaughter of St. Bartholomew;
who worked the guillotine and supervised the
September massacres and the Noyades of the
French Revolution; who blew Sepoys from cannon
and starved prisoners at Andersonville--when, in
fine, is discovered th,t it is the white aud not
the black race which is guilty Of these Jamaica
crimes, CONSERVATISM is dumb.
The simple iacts OF the case we published LASS
week. compiled from English official sources.
From these il appears that there was q riot of the
colorcd men TO resist the execution Of n warrant
against some OF their number. The military were
called upon and fired into them. killing several.
The inuriated rioters then closed with the soldiers,
and seiZing their muskets, slew some twenty of
them in turn, and tore others in pieces. Bu,
Governor EYRE himself admits that woman and
children were respected. Only one white ma,
was subsequently killed, and the Governor further
admits that there WAS no attempt at extending an
insurrecton. But panic instantly seized the Brit
ish authorities. They surrounded with military
force the settlement in which the outbreak had
occurred, summoned the Maroon., tribe Of wild
mountaineers. descendants of the old Spanish
slaves upon the island, and advancing upon the in
hsbtants slaughtered them indiscriminately. and
with such sickcninS detaills of horror that the
Liberals, OF England have already appealed to the
Gov eminent, and Lord RUSSELL has replied that a
thorough investigation will be made.
JonS BRrcHT plainly asserts in his late speech
that Governor EYRE will yet be tried for murder OF
GoRDos, mula,to Baptist preacher, who upon
some suspicion was carried from his own dstrc,
into where martiI law was proclaimed, and
there tried by drum head court martial and
hung. 81 fear that the fame Of England" saws
/ Mr. BRIoHr, "has never received deeper wound
or a darker stain than il has from the recent
transactions in that island" And GoLpwIy
SMirH, in letter to the Boston Daily Advertiser
writes: "As the case at present stands there is
nothing whatever to prove peculiar, much less
indelible. ferocity in the negro race But the
whites of the island, the English officers who have
! been corrupted by the Establishments Of that de-
PRAYED society for i. 10 deeply dcpravcd). and sad
10 say. the Governor himself, have committed such
atrocities. that II the Home Government we're 10
fail in its duty ofv:ndcating the character of this
countrr, il will be TINA for Enslishman who
cares for the honor Of his nation to look out for
another home"
Are such events to be lost upnn us1 Are We
never to learn that honesty is the best policy
Have We not YET been sufficiently taught that the
"ins.nctve antipathy" and the natural loathing'
for "inferor race are lu1uries too costly for
any people to indulgde inl What was the spring
OF the very panic which occasoned these ma.sa-
cres by Englishmcn bu: the consciousness that a
part OF the population has not had fair play? Our
l"COnservative" doctors have always shouted vcry
Justify over the horrors of ST. Domingo. Bl: the
horrors fam iic, quite as revolving and i.ii
nitely more unpardonable.