Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-06

Iexico, nay, look at Hayti,where even the
alacks and mulattoes, though closely rela-
ed, have been compelled to separate, the
f)rmer occupying one part ana tne laGCer
mother part of the island, because Ghey
aIlnot live together in peace. In all these
ountries what have we seen but alterna-
lions of anarchy and despotism for the last
thirty years? No stable Governments no
advance in civilization, no increase In
wealth, no security for life, liberty or prop
( rty: but everywhere burnings, plunder-
Angs, murders, insurrections, PRESCRIPTIONS
nd conflscations. Shall we, my friends,
1ring upon one-third of our country SIM
liar fate? -. 2 ~ sra ~ --Ev
Shall we make Mexico of the land that
rave birth to Washington and Jefferson, 70
Marion and Rutledge, to jackson and Clay!
Shall we make the descendants OF the men
of rs, slaves of slayes-neyer to. be freed
from thraldem except through an ordeal of
anarchy! Shall we blindly ana stupidity,
for the qualification of revenge or the pro-
1opgation of the power of arparty, entail
sucll calamities upon our common country?
trust not I believe not--for have not
yet lost my ancient confidence in the
integrity and wisdom OF the people.
Just as firmly as I believe that the
negro, race is, not cap able of self-goy-
ernment-and in the light OF science,
history and experience, certainly. do
believe that-just so firmly do l believe
that the white race is thus capable; aud if
this be SO cannot cXpectit it to surrender its
power or share it with those whom God
for his own wise purposes, has made infe-
rior and incapable. ---..-.,...- b.
If there be any who think that the illus
trations have given are of little value, be-
cause the whites of Mexico and South
America are chiefly of Spanish descent, and
the inhabitants of Indian blood there out
number all others, let him turn his eyes to
Jamaica, where, under the most favorable
circumstances that could be Imagined, the
experiment has been tried of social and po-
litical equality between our own Anglo
Saxon race aud the negro. -1ffA ?. eii
The British Parliament not only eman-
cipated the slaves of that island but itcon-
ferred upon them an absolute equality of
rights, political as we'll as civil, with the
whites.a The right to vote, to sit on juries,
to hold office, were all granted, as well as
the right to freedom, and to acquire, hold
and dispose of property. Not only this,
but immense sums have been expended,
partly by the Government and partly by
philahthropists, to educate and christian
ize the blacks, and to procure for them
farms sufficient for their decent support.
And now what is the result? A plain and
undeniable failure. The production of the
island not one-third what it formerly was,
society everywhere fearfully demoralized,
negro insurrection occurring within the
last year and put down with great destruc-
tion OF life, and, at length, the British Par
lament compelled to supersede, for the
present at least and perhaps forever, the
local government, and take the rule into
its own hands. Suehare the fruits ofnear-
ly thirty years experience of white and
negro equality in the fairest and most fer
tile island of the globe. And this state OF
things is not accidental or spasmodic. The
decay and decentralization have gone on, in
fl no
inauguration of negro equality. Years af-
ter the adoption of that policy, the Ameri-
can and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, in
its annual report of 1858, felt compelled to
admit that "a nation of slaves cannot at
once be converted into nation of intelli-
gent, Industrious and moral freemen." And
that, SIT is not too much even now, to say
of the people of jamaica, their condition
is exceedingly degraded, their morals woe
fully corrupt." lac ett H3g3 ssaa' 'saa tzae1fi
Aboutthe same time, the London Times
thus foreibly and truthfully described the
situation: -1I,i.,. d ,-se7s7- s.r5 7,,o., s;p
s'The negro has not acquired, with his
freedom, any habits of industry or moral
fity. His independence is but little better
than that of an uncaptured brute. Having
accepted few of the restraints of civiliZa-
tion, he is amenable to few of its necessi-
ties; and the wants of his nature are so
easily satisfied, that at the current rate oil
wages, he is called upon. for nothing but
f1tful or desultory exertion. The blacks,
therefore, instead of becoming intelligent
,husbandmen, have become vagrants and
squatters. and it is now apprehended that
with the failure of cultivation in the island
will come the failure of its resources for in
structing or controlling its population. So
imminent does this consummation appear,
that memorials have been signed by classes
of colonial society hitherto standing aloof
from politics, and notlenly the bench and
the bar, but the bishops, clergy and minis
= ters of denomination IN the island,
without exception, have recorded their
conviction, that, in the absence of timely
relief, the religious and educational insti-
tutions of the island must be abandoned,
and the masses of the population retrograde
to barbarism." 80 sfi'
Mr.. Bigelow, an editor of the Evenin1
Post, one of Jne most influential of the jour
mails of New Y ork, and strongly anti
Slavery, after having spent winter in Ja-
maica, says of its condition from 1913 to
1853 :sSffsA X ss'sa-S = 95.
s'This decline has been going on from
year to year, daily becoming more alarm
ing, until at length the island has reached
what would appear to be the last profound
of distress and misery, when thousands of
people do not know, when they rise in the
morning, whence or in what >manner they
are to procure bread for the day."
he.America,s Missionary, a areIgious peri
odicai, and the organ of the American Mis-
siohary Association, in its number for july
1855, contained the following:
Z From the number Of churches and
chapels in the island, Jamaica ought GER
tainly to be called christian land. The
people may be called a church-going peo-
pie. There are chapels and places of wor-
ship enough at least in this part of the
island, to supply the people if every station
-OfHour mission were given up. And there
-isno lack of ministers and preachers. As
ffaras / am acquainted, almost the entire
adult population profess to have hope of
Ieternal life, and I think the large part are
connected with churches. In view of such
facts, some have been led to say, The
Spiritual condition of the population is
very satisfactory But there is another
class Of facts that is perfectly astounding.
With this array of the externals of religion,
}oile broad, deep wave Of moral death rolls
over the land. A man may be a drunkard,
a liar, Sabbath-breaker, profane man, a
fornicator, an adulterer and such like-and
be known to be such-and go to chapel,
and hold up his head there, and feel no dis
grace from these things, because they are
so common as to create public sentiment
in his favor. He may go to the communion
table, and cherish hope of heaven, and
not have his hope disturbed. / might tell
of persons guilty of some if not all these
things, ministering in holy things"
~ 1 close the proofs of the state of things
In Jamaica by the following very clear
statement of correspondent of the Boston
Post, written last June; and pray you to
note the similarity of the practices of the
English and American aholitionists, and to
ask yourselves whether the same causes
that produced the negro insurrection in
Jamaica, may not, If allowed to exist, pro-
duce like insurrections here:
ssEDIToR BOSTON PosT II notice in your
issue day or two since an article which
censures Gov. Eyre, of Jamaica, for his
vigorous measures in suppressing the late
insurrection. 1t is not strange to me that