Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-05-09
NUMBER 9.

anu can Only DC grown successfully Ill certain localities, one of which favor ed localities is the section of country which have chosen. 1 expect to turn my attention principally to the cultiva- ton of this valuable fruit.
 see enough to satisfy me that can make twice as much money here as I ever made in the United States, and with one-half the labor at that
 But will not say that there are no objections to the country. There are mosquitoes here but have not seen as many during the five or six months that l have been in Brazil as I have many times seen upon the Mississippi or its tributaries in the space of forty eight hours. They have snakes here, and some terrible, big, poisonous fel- lows but have travelled in canoes, on horse back, and on foot, by day and by night; have been five months upon the trip, and it has been warm enough all the time for snakes, and yet will take a solemn oath that during these five months, and during this long and tiresome journey, have seen only six snakes they were all small-one was a little green fellow about twelve inches long, two were garter snakes, two were king snakes, and the other was ldouble-euicking fo the thicket so rap idly that failed to make note of his color, size or qualities. There are mighty anacondas and boa constructors here, that can crush and munch and swallow an OK, but have yet to find the living man who has ever seen one. There arc cannibals here, wild Indians, who kill and cat people, and have even passed though the very sections said to be infested by them, yet night after night have lain upon the banks of that mighty river, in the dense shade and deep solitude of it's forests. and I have slept as sweetly and as quietly.as did when my good mother rocked me to sleep in my infant cradle, upon the banks of the old Sapulge. Nay more, 1 have heard terrible story that there are plenty of them not more than a hundred miles from where am go-. ing to settle, yet after the most diligent and faithful inquiry from those who live nearest to the savages, I have never been able to find man who has ever heard of savage being seen in the last thirty years. I have tried long and faithfully to find a man who ever saw one, but thus far have failed com plctely.
 "Yet there are other disadvantages, says some good Southern man, who has returned from Brazil dissatisfied and perfectly disgusted. "Although they have slavery in Brazil, yet they have q great many free negroes there who are l permitted to vote, and some of them to hold office. Well, this is true. The qualification for voters here is pro- perty qualification, and when the free negro possesses that qualification he is allowed to vote, and when he possesses | SCt teiit it4ul nC IS SOinCtiDlCS appoiated to office; but he is not like the American negro, taught to believe himself the superior of white man on the contrary, although his father and his grandfather before him were free, yet true Co nature and to natures laws he has set to his seal that God is true, ! in that hn bop op' of o11 and t,, aIl ages, made and designed the white man superior to the black one; and ! do most solemnly aver that 1 have never in the whole course of my life :; even when slavery in the South was in its palmiest and most unquestionel power,) found the negro more ready and more willing to acknowledge my right to supremacy and command, than I have found the free negroes of Brazil since have been within the limits of the empire. They have made me the trustiest and most faithful servants have ever had. But honestly and sincerely believe that freedom is the worst curse that can be put upon the negro, whatever the cline or country | i1which it is done. True to his native instincts, he shuns labor, and will not work, save only when driven to it by stern necessity.
 The true men of Brazil have already seen the horrors of emancipation and amalgamation and they are hailing with shouts of joy the arrival in their midst of true men from the South. Fear not everything is going right. Let our people emigrate to thi, country, and all 1 will be well. We shall have no trouble upon this question, in onr little colony for there are very few persons living in it's limits, either white or black, There are more than two millions of slaves in Brazil, and see no indica- tions of general emancipation. If the tide of emigration that has set in from the South should continue, the day of emancipation in Brazil will be post poned until God Almighty sees proper to order it; and if we are true to our race and lineage, to the religion of our fathers, and to the God of the Bible, we shall swell that tide until it assumes proportions as grand and sublime as the causes which have impclled us to this exile. But enough. Brazil is a thousand times better than the United States in every particular which can interest us. Let that suffice.
 ->)>
 s4-In bull-fight days, blacksmith, who was rearing bull-pup, induced his old father to go on all-fours to im-