Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-29

peg In the fate Of the once productive
and prosperous islands of Hayti and
Jamaica we have a sample Of the best
which may be hoped for from negro
domination over the Southern States.
Being in the majority as voting popu-
lation, if they have the right of control
at all, there will be no excuse for inter
ference on the part of Congress or the
Government while the forms of republi-
eanism remain, no matter what the
absurdity or oppression of their acts.
The inevitable drama of outrage and
crime is now as palpably before the
intelligent men Of the country as if it
was already played out. And the re-
sponsibility for consequences, if not
checked in the inception, will rest on
them. Disorder and mischief is chronic
in these and all the West India islands /;
and Hayti, just emerged from one revo-
luton, is threatened with another. There,
as here, the influence of incendiary and
fanatical whites may still be traced as
the foundation of troubles. Some of our
underground missionaries have doubtless
been imported to infest the islands, and
such yermin will be found wherever
wooden nutmegs can CO.
The correspondent of the New York
World, writing from Kingston, Jamaica,
afirms the utter ruin Of the island,
financial, moral and social. An island
which, for climate and soil and produce
tive capacity, is hardly surpassed in the
world, which is the equal, if not the SD
perior, of Cuba, is now completely pau
perized. In one island the negroes are
free, in the other controlled and eubordi
mated. In Jamaica, there is nothing but
degradation and poverty, in Cuba good
order and accumulated wealth. Our
missionaries now have a fine field for
their philanthropy" to reduce Cuba to
the condition Of Jamaica, Hayti and the
cotton States. Once Jamaica exported
considerably more than Cuba, and now
it exports scarcely anything, while the
exports of Cuba run to thirty millions,
and exceed all the past. The cause is
negro freedom, and the Incidence and
vagrancy necessarily consequent upon
it, for there is no other difference or
reason to be assigned and where the
same cause exists the result is the same,
whether in all the West India Islands or
the United States, while the demoraliza-
ton and barbarism is appalling and ex-
ceeding sny land of cannibals. And yet
these islands have been under
the fostering care of the British
Government all the time this
process Of destruction and demoraliza
ton has been going on. Can the United
States government succeed any better
Can it make eagles out Of buzzards, raise
gorillas to the standard Of manhood, and
elevate ignorance and bestiaiiy to the
empyrean of wisdom and the soul ?
Never. Every spot on the earth which
the African control has cursed has been
a jungle, hideous night and he'll, and
it viii be so here until the order Of
Providence is changed, BY which it is
made necessary that intelligent action
and foresight should be exercised, as the
condition without which no good is to be
enjoyed. Fanatics still pirate Of the
possibility Of elevating the black race to
an equality with the white, and Of making
industry and prosperity 20 hand in hand
with negro sovereignty and freedom. Bat
the whole history Of the past, and al the
logic Of undeniable reason and inexor-
able facts SO belle their conclusion that
they canno, nov look honest men in the
face While they venture to affirm IT and
for the only support in their infamous
course they are driven 70 coneeAlment'
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