New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-06-04

to the duty Of taking care of themselves and In The habits
Of SEX government There but two such fields fainy
and completely before u.s. in the mountain parishes Oh Js
maca and In the Dominican Republic, and DO d are "
cited failures while Others Affect % consider them
brilliant evidences of the capacity Of the blacks 70 ivss
and progress frank, political fellowship with me
whites. Which is nearest the truth
The farest argument impartial statement OF facts
Not in the seap0rs OF either country for they the
reservoirs Of the exceptional overflow the county,
in the sugar plantations of Jamaica, where the blacks love
TO herd but 10 not mproye in the secluded hemets
OF Hayt where there active educated whites 10
mpart fresh lights Of progress from the busy outside
world of Europe and the United States the lesson be
studied. II only where there is territory of mutual in
terests and hxed-or il better 10 say, mutually
ceptedhabs Of intercourse between the races who're ths
educated and independent coored man can assert what
ever social position be is fully capable osustaning thstt
is all possible say whether the African and Europeaa
races travel to the common advantage the same
road.
How have they travelled together in Jamaica7 We know
that beside the grave Of Manageable system Of leg
sation by which England forced up exciting prcsper
" aud then reduced the oyerposperous and therefore,
exravagant and luxurious planters Of Jamaica to the
Of general bankruptcy in the face OF this runous chech
the great Shareholders Of the island could not adapt them
selves to the new demands OF the emancipation ers.
Everywhere in Jamaica the traveller encounters the rna
grand old estates abandoned by bankrupt owners buried
in rising forests and the ne expensive avenues thAs
led up those bospitabe halls are dotted outDY
the entanglng underground Those abandoned estatex
parceed off in many instances to the freedmen and
10000 families Of this class are nesting in vacant In
full seasons when they want extra article OF cioh-
ing and can get work. In some districts the land was
distributed to such extent among the freedmen tbss
whole neghbOrhoods sinking into kind OF seml-ya-
grancy and such avoided points Of residence u
single families of and respectabitysuch as coala
give regular employment to those willing to work
The assertion will displease many benevolent PERSONS
but 1t is generally conceded in Jamaica that land was mad
but too easily, and that il would have been benefit To
themselves f it had been arranged that the negroes
should heve been obliged to their homesteads NJ
somewhat Of the painstaSng and sefdenyng ehop VITA
which the poor white acquires his IN the ben
bounteous Union STILL all the estates not abandoned
by their Impoverished owners and there in many
parishes resident land owners who blessing 10 the
Africans around them. Wherever We meet neghbof-
hood Of these resident owners there Is perceptibs
improvement in the dress manners aud general lie OF os
blacks about them This social fact is observable IN eveP
part Of Jamaica but the history Of any OF the Large
will illustrate its workings in detail will selece
of the best known. On the margin Of the SWIM,
Cobse Just where the three parishes Of St Johs
St Catherine and St. Thomas in the vale touch bounda
two miles over hill and dale and giving part OF
scant irregular support to about twenty families o.
tenants and laborers l. is "pimeno property" EvsT
groves and what would bring $4,000 every year in thS
markets Of the United States has for some years pass
roted the ground for want Of gathering Tue
hndered their gathering Yet of the fruit d
600 orange, lemon and lime trees, only whss
used OF 900 bearing pmento lalspice trees
they barely picked and dried the pound ortwo they needles
for their simple cookery Only three four out of all the
tenantry did that much These people are among the
most intelligent and industrious of the African peaSantY
Jamaica. They have their church and Sunday school,
They genial and kindly with each other as rule ana
live on the best terms with the white gentefoks around
them, but they have not reaeoed the point a
making their combined efforts stand in the place OF caf-
tai If they had they could pick and barrel and send 70
the coast for shipment the neglected wealth OF thas
orange and pmento groves The absent owners would -
quite willing to accept & moderate share OF the
profits but there was no one among them
nett IN lead their llbOrs. The EMPLOYING head
and purse of the proprietor all they want a.
Keith Hall. This neglected place was formerly the prop
erty of Sir William Stevenson, and while be lived and
resided chiefly the estate it beautiful and beht-
ting home for gentleman Of taste and rank and in those
days there and about ffiy families OF happy and
contened dependents. Sir William vas appointed Gov
enor of Mauritus and died there but before he len
Jamaica he encouraged and assisted large number OF h1
people TO establish themselves as feehodes on ranges
homesteads of or two acres EACH along the margin Oh
the estate.
The wages of common aborers in Jaacs average about
30 cents day, and while they have steady employees
that low rae with their acre or so OF PROVISION
ground they in similar places up in the hills
happy and docie peasanry Now and then superior naa
of wins place the ranks OF the plant
ers showing that be done but whole the race
made the progress which it's European ex-
pcc,ed from the advantages afforded the freedmen They
must have steadier stimulus 20 labor, and as matters
stand they need the whites much as the whites theus
and both races in Jamaica need instruction and caPtA
from without TO stir up the behind-he-age farming ways
the whole island.
II sir Frederick Bruce, who in Jamaica when his
noble relative, Lord Egin Governor there, would
advise his Government 70 allow Americans to hold real
estate in that island, few hundred might create
magnificent Winter residences out of those grand odd
estates that would change the whole face OF
affairs They would teach the Africans how 10 pows and
aud many other useful thing-book reading in
cuded--to the enrichment of all parties This Is what
the race has right demand Of US, and that it cannot
secure the negroes are left themselves in their pres
ent unprepared homage One or two generations hence
the negroes reach much higher and hrmer point Of
advancement by maintaining industrial connection
fto pvhf and IL
structng such vast mass Of untaught, improvident
beings.