The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-05-25
Emancipation in Brazil.
From the Neao York Tribune.

The telegraph brings that the last formidable strong
hold of Slavery remaining Chrstendom have virtually fallen
before the irresistible advance of the great movement for uni
versa freedom and equal rights Brazil has given the death
blow the wicked which has been long both her
grevous and her foul disgrace. Henceforh every
child into the empire is free, and in twenty years the
chains will fall from the her last surviving slave By
this decree nearly 100000 Blacks raised up from the
though few of this generation hope to
of general emancipation it much for them to know
that the which rested the parents will longer be
transmitted to the children it something that the younger
of them have bright although distant future look towards
and to wait for Very likely too the dying institution will
not be suffered to nger out the whole of the existence which
the law accord the benefits of free labor the
whole country become appreciated fresh legislation may
hasten the advent of national liberty and justice.
The State which has taken this important step the road
progress about 100000 square miles OF the richest
portion the South American continent being little greater
in than the United States. Nature has given the
magnificent river system in the world The Amazon rolls
its mighty waves through the dense the
provnces-oess teemng with all the gogeousness and lux
of the tropics rich in precious woods and valuable
fbearng trees and alive with the most brilliant forms of
animal and its tributaries streams which in any
other part the world would be called rivers of the first class
The Rio Francisco in the East and the auents of the
Plata the South, give fertility and channels of easy
communication extents of country while the
interior stretch the great grassgown pampas with their
countless herds of CATTLE covering region times big
the whole of France There mines of gold there is
coal plenty there is iron and the annual product of dia
monds is far from 81 900 00O There desert the
empire The whole is a rich oam covered with vegetation
unequaed for magn6cence and beauty, except perhaps in
the islands of the Indian with
her meagre development Brazil supplies half the world
sugar. and tobacco She has exported of coffee and
sugar eighteen months than of diamonds in eighty years
three hundred years since the first permanent settlement
of the country by Europeans yet in all this time and with all
the wealth of the soil and the charms of genial
climate tempt immigration not one acre in hundred and
fifty has felt the labor of the husbandman and immense
regions almost unknown to-day when Pncon the
companion of Columbus first possession of the country
in the of the King of Castillo Nor for many years
least has Government which is of the best
LIBERAL progressive monarches the world spared
anv effort to attract the superintendent population of Europe
fhoIr ipHpn tho
mother country Portugal in 1922, they have devoted them
selves zealouy works of social and industrial Improvement
They freedom of education, freedom of the press and
freedom religious worship They have abored hard de-
velop their Of communication with the old world hav
ing regular lines of mail steamers to the principal European
ports They have the coast and rivers They
have railways built by English and American engineers Their
with Great Britain France and the United States is
large and constantly increasing Their imports at the latest
which have S63 amounted to $5500000,
their exports sos 000 00O Six years ago.
there were already fifty foreign colonies founded by the
aid liberal grants of Government lands but the coonsts
did NUMBER all told than 60000 and at any rate,
it by banding themselves together in isolated commu-
mites that immigrants materially benefit the country of
their adoption infusion of blood must the
whole BODY polite; if the old blood and the
mingle one or the other will be driven out.
1t precisely there element the social and
political life of Brazil which repealed these sturdy settlers that
the great South American Empire SO tbin peoped having
only 900 inhabitants The same cause which in
this country has uniformly directed the stream of
to the Northern Western instead of the Southern Saes
has been constantly couneractng all the inducements held
Inv nature and by draw settlers Brazil Slavery and
wholesome immigration natural enemies and always
heen the world over has beckoned the settler
with one hand while with the other she has upheld the great
wickedness drives him The first cOonss ensaved
the Indians and des tie the futile of
adopted by Portuguese in 1870 in l647 and 1884
these unfortunate natives remained in servude until 1885, and
would perhaps been held this day had they proved
very unprofabe Negroes accordingly imported from
other Portuguese domnions saveade with the African
coast naturally sprang up, and is only just ended.
Six years have witnessed the enamel patton of 45OOOOOO
sers Russia the liberation 900 in the United
States the virtual manumisson of 100000 negroes in
Brazil 1t is glorious six years work-52 900 OF men
restored freedom taken off three of the largest
empires in the world little that remains do cannot
long undone The miserable relic of barbarism fingers
only afew islands belonging the Spanish crown and
the holder who the face of the of the last fe
years. hopes to retain the right buy and sell his owman,
even in those islands, must be sangune indeed.