The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-09-19
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If the negro ever made republican
government, history is silent on the sub
ject. Where do we find republie ike
Rome, or Greece, or Carthage, in the land
of the negro on the banks of the Niger
Where do we find the ruins of any
splendid buildings erected by him to JUS
tice, to religion, or to legislation, with
lofty domes surrounded by Corinthian
columns ? The swallow to-day builds a
nest like the swallow that came out of
Noah's ark. And the negro in Africa to-
four Thousand years ago. And yet slav-
cry in the South was considered the
great crime of the age, for which it seems
the Southern people have, DOT yet suffered
enough. When in all tin Apages of his
tory do we read that the slaves of peo-
pie were set free, and those same slaves
made to rule their former masters? ? If
it never has been done, it is a guarantee
that it never will be done. st. Domingo
is not an exception, for the whites were
murdered that did no1 fly.
- We viii now examine his second pro-
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re ruxos.s~~--
An ounce of civit, good apOthecary.
Let us see what he done in that re-
spect as slave, and then find out if we
can what he has done as a g voter"
From the close of the Revolutionary
war down to 1860, the products of slave
labor rapidly increased, until We were
shipping two hundred mill Iens of dollars
worth of cotton, tobacco, agar, rice. &c.
all the products of slave labor. These
exports came back to us in the shape of
foreign goods on which the Federal gov
ernment collected tariff amounting to
millions of dollars every year. With
this money we paid all the expenses of
the government, down to 1860. Bought
Louisiana, Florida, California, New Mex
leo, Mesilla Valley, paid Texas ten mil
lion of dollars. The revenue from pub
lie lands was so Insignificant, that the
government has long since adopted the
policy of giving them away to old sol
diers, to railroads, for homesteads, and to
school funds. At present we are export
ing almost nothing, but gold and coal
oil. We consume nearly all the agricul-
tural products we make, and this is the
secret of % hard times" The freedman
and "voter" is loafng around towns, or
stealing in the country; and the hard
working white man is paying the taxes.
The negroes in Kentucky are more
peaceable, quiet, and Industrious, than
those of Tennessee, and are better off to-
day than any where North or South.
All is peace, quietness, and industry in
the State of Kentucky, while Tennessee,
and the Southern States are boiling like
a pot. Why this difference answer,
" Negro suffrage" Negro suffrage is
the s,Uord Of despotiSas an the hands Of
the Radical.
y people who have been slaves for
generations are incapable of self govern
ment. The great Jehovah caused the
children of Israel to wander forty years
in the Wilderness, until they all died
but Caleb Joshua because those who
hal been zlaEes IN Egypt vera j3aaap--hia;
of enjoying liberty and sslf-government
in the Promised Land
St. Domingo, was the queen of the
West Indies-the brightest gem in the
crown of France. When France owned
st. Domingo she had commercial navy
of 1900 vessels, and 81 900 sailors en-
ployed to carry the products, and the re-
turns of those products, and distributed
them throughout the world-672 900,
900 millions of pounds of sugar, ST.
$4,000 of pounds of coffee were ex-
ported in 1889 In 1892, after forty
years of freedom not single pousd Of
sugar was exported from that Island.
Alison, vol. I'd, page 251 Here is an
argument on which it is unnecessary to
dilate. Jamaica was the finest colony
England had. In 1892 abolitionism de-
manded the freedom of the slaves. The
British government gave the owners
100000, This was estimated at
four years purchase of the negro. The
planters were ruined, and of course the
colony. England gave one hundred mil
lion of dollars for permission to ruin the
best colony she had; just as the govern
ment of the United States spent four
thousand million of dollars to kill the
goose that laid the golden egg.
! Last year the civilized world was
shocked from its propriety by an insur-
rection in Jamaica, and the atrocities OF
the negro; and the abolitionists were
shocked from their propriety by the ter
rible arrogance of Gov. Eyre.