The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-12-05
A Wall of Ignorance From ia
lMaica.

The New York Worlds town CORES
pondcnt," from Kingston, Jamaica
writes letter Of over column aliir
ming the utter ruin Of Jamaica, finan.
cially, morally, socially, and every 9th
er way, and gives some twelve or fif
teen ''reasons' for this prostration and
destruction, and paupersm of "the fl,
nest country in the world" not one Of
Which, however, has anything to do
with the one sole Cause Of Jamaica's 8
ruin. 1t is true that, in natural resour
ccs and advantages, no spot has been
more favored Of Heaven than Jamaica.
In climate and soil it is the equal if
not the superior Of Cuba, and at one
time its exports far exceeded those OF
Cuba. Bat that was before the foolish
and criminal business Of turning loose
the ncgroeshcgan in Jamaica. The
cause Of Jamaica's ruin is flee negro
ism. This and nothing else, while the
cause Of Cuba's constantly increasing
prosperity is negro subordination.
Under regulated labor in Jamaica, its
annual export wealth was $4,000, 900
greater than that OF Cuba. But now
the annual wealth of Cuba is S27,OO0,-
900 greater than Stree" negro Jamaica.
Cuba has just as steadily advanced un.
der negro subordination rs Jamaica
has rctrograded under stree -negroism.
Negro "freedom' has produced the
same ruin in Hayti, in Trinidad, in Bar
balocs, and in all the rest of the West
India Islands, that it has in Jamaica.
1t has not only utterly ruined those
countries financially. but it has, to g
fearful extent, sapped the very founda-
tons Of the white mans civilization.
1t has set them all fur back on the road
to Arricanism. Nor should civilized
mankind be astonished at this awful re-
suit The cK)rt to educate negroes
to act like white men, either morally,
mentally, socially or politically, is as
foolish and abominablc, as ~ attempt
to train asses to be horses, or buzzards
to be eagles, would be. All Of Eng
lands clturts to rcgcncrate and save
her West India Islands, while adhear
ing to 'Jrse negroiSm,' will forever be
rs abortive rs trying to fill sieve with
water. "Regeneration' implies either
the Atricanizaion or the re-suluga-
ton of tthc negroes. Either they must
be put back, or all those countries will
ultimately become African jungles.
Several months ago G. Chaunccy Burr,
in q respectful note, challenged Mr..
Phillips to discuss the question, wheM-
er ihe t@rning loose Of any considerable
nun,ber Of negroes has not ruined erery
country on tie Jaee ofMc globe where tie
experiment has been risW Mr.. Phil
lips has not yet responded, and henev-
er Will. He prefers to re'y upon the
sympathics and ignorance Of his herers,
and upon the platitudes Of scnseless
rhetoric, than to trust his cause to the
tests Of argument, and the iuexorble
logic Of history. There never was 4
cause so completely founded on igno-
rance, and in aprohigate disrcspcct Of
the universal teachings Of history, as
that Of abolitionism. 1t las ruined
every land it has touched 1t is, at
this moment putting our own country
through IN experiment which is enough
to shame the devil. Bat there are signs
that our people are already satisfied
with the first taste Of .let-loose-negro-
ism, and the second sober thought will
break into ashundrcd thousand frag
ments all this fatal network which the
malignant Abolitionists have woven
around us.-N Y Day Book.