Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-11-26
j@A From the New Y ork Herald.]
Negro ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of the Wes'
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There IS now scarcely telegram that reaches
us from the West Indies that does not tell OF
horrible atrocities and seryile outbreaks by the
black sons OF Africa-outbreaks dignifed by the
name OF revolutions. Yesterday we announced
new rebellion IN Jamaica, and the fact that In
one, parish alone four hundred negroes were
ready for revolt The island is in panic, the
white population seriously menaced, trade and
commerce stagnant, and civilization buried still
deeper under load of barbarism. Hayti pre-
sents the same sad and revolving picture of a
movement IN the direction of barbarism. On
the 18th OF October the scene in the legislative
chambers was very violent Even the negro
President, Sanave, became so audacious as to
lncIte rabble OF women and boys to attack the
House of Assembly: This they did amid loud
viods tor Salnave, and cries of Down with the
Assembly !! hurting, at the same time, bricks,
bottles, sticks, &c., The dwellings, of many
were vigorously stoned. The American Consul
was fired at, but escaped unhurt"
These are the pictures of negro rule, OF ne
gro independence, Of negro suffrage. These are
the pictures of country governed by the blood
of Africa. In Jamaica more than generation
has passed since the negroes were thrown to the
front and forced to make an effort to maintain
themselves at the level of the white man. How
well they have succeeded let the present trou-
bles demonstrate. They have not only been go
ing on from bad to worst, but civilization itself
has been dying out even where it existed among
the whites. The blacks, instead of rising to the
level OF the white population, have gradually
lowered the whites to the basest standard of
morality and intelligence, until we have the
picture OF magnificent West India island sink
ing to the fearful barbarism of Central Africa.
If Jamaica presents this in one light Hayti and
ST. Domingo present it in still holder relief
Here we have the full focus of negro efforts at
civilization. First a war against the whites,
then war between blacks and mulattoes, then
what may be denominated Kaleidoscope war,
in which color has warred against color in all
the endless changes, forming magnificent revo-
lutionary combination, very beautiful to look at
at distance, but death to participate in.
In drawing the picture of Hayti, ST. Donlin-
go and Jamaica we are only photographing up
on the American mind in advance the picture
that Congress IS trying to impress upon the
United States by false and barbaric legislation
Radical rule as exposed to-day means down with
the white man !eup with the negro Down
with intelligence up with ignorance Down
with clvlzatlon up with barbarism And
they ring all the changes on the skull of the ne
gro which, We're it not as tough as drumhead,
would burst under the blows. Never has such
miserable legislation fallen to the lot of any ma
ton. Never in the most degraded days of Ro-
man history did they descend to forcing barba-
rism to the surface that it might swamp intelli-
gence. Never did nation try to throttle itself
by voluntarily placing the black, hand of Africa
at its throat. Never did statesmen before de-
scend to the dregs of humanity to battle their
hands in its worst filth that they might besmear
with it such a civilization as we have reached in
1867. But they are not statesmen they are
mad demagogues who, to prolong political pow
er, would willingly plunge the nation into fifty
years of civil strife. They must be overturned
before they effect our national ruin. The peo-
pie, the common sense Of the country, must
stand between them and the ruin towards which
they drive. 1t is not yet too late; but foul
years more of such legislation would ruin any
country though it had ten times. the backbone
of the United States.