The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-03-30
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ono Tot OF evidence upon which
I'VE may ass1nie That IS changes have
taken place in nations, and the great
have fallen, and the little have be5
came great, so Africa has fallen from
higher state? or have we before us
an original block of the earths sur
face, in portions unchanged from the
beginning, inhabited by races who are
now what they were at the beginning !?
As the swallow from her creation, has
built her'nest OF mud, so the negro
throughout Africa has built from the
| beginning, and still builds his hut of
mud and straw; his ideas are confin-
ed to the requirements of the day !;
iihis architectural design is, like the
pie form of a circle. The negro is q
melancholy picture of the OK in his
pasture, beyond which he has small
ambition. Compare him with the
races of India, who emigrate in hun
dreds of thousands to seek for work,
and to earn sufficient to enable them
to return and TO cultivate their own
homes. What would become of those
prosperous colonies, Ceylon and Maur-
titus, We're we dependent upon negro
labor, and had we not the emigrant
coolies? To whom do we owe the
prosperity of those colonies? To the
Indian laborer. What do we owe to
the African? Will the greatest admir-
er of the negro assert that halfa dozen
negroes from the whole of Africa
| would voluntarily emigrate to seek
for employment? !? Still We are told
that the negro only requires equal
rights and equal position to become as
useful q member of society as the
white man. We will return to jam
aiea, with which country have un-
fortunately been long interested as a
proprietor, although never personally
in the colony. Can any one deny
that jamaica, once so prosperous, is
now absolutely ruined ? and that the
chief cause of this ruin is want of Ia
Dor, the effect of the idleness of me-
groes? Will the friend of the negro,
who declares him to be as good or
better than an Englishman, buy q SUI
gar estate in Jamaica and reside upon
it? Here is an, opportunity for the
improvement of the negrol How is
it that every proprietor of an estate is
forced TO accuse the negro as idle and
vagrantJ? Simply because in Jamaica
he is in the ascendant, and he can eth
er, work or remain idle and squat as
he pleases. The absurd feature of his
character, conceit, has been exagger-
ated by the prominence given to his
case thus he is determined to be his
own master he oretires to the back
lands and squats; having nothing to
do, he becomes rebellious he resolves
to overthrow the whites and to secure
a negro paradise like Santo Domingo.
The energy of Governor Eyre nipped
the rebellion i'll the bud and saved the
miserable wreck of colony; violent
measures were adopted, upon the ne
-cessity of which opinions vary. The
Governor was recalled since his re-
turn he has been burnt in effigy by
people who are perfectly justified in
declaring that the negro is equal to
themselves A subscription has been
opened by. the assailants of Mr.. Eyre
which, | believe, has reached the
large sum of G6,000-not for charity,
not for the poor blacks, not to civil
iZe their and brother" but, hear
it, England! it is to prosecute for
wIlful murder the late Governor, Mr..
Eyre, and to ruin him and his family
with the enormous costs of defense.
This, - after long life passed in his
countrv's service. For venturing to
support Mr.. Eyre as a man placed in
an unfair position, have, in my turn,
been assailed and complimented by
the Star as a Savage" The Star
and other enemies of Mr.. Eyre may
restTassured that have always prac-
tically befriended the negro to the ut
most; that have, under the most try
ing circumstances, even in open fight,
refrained from pulling a trigger; and
that the great difficulties of my Jour-
ney to Central Africa were caused by
my determination that the rights of
the natives, although savages, should
be respected by my people (Arabs),
which resolve on my part caused the
desertion of my escort. / have sought
the active cooperation of philaDthro.
pists for the negro cause, but in vain
is it possible that this persecution of
Governor Eyre is the effect of "phil-
anthropy"? Why do not the friends
of the negro combine to crush the
slave trade existing in Egypt, where
thousands are brought down annually
from Central Africa, and thousands
are massacred in the interior? Why 4
should they spend their energy in
prosecuting Mr.. Eyre, when SO wide
and bloody a field lies before them,
where these atrocities are hourly COM
mitted, which the influence of Eng
land could prevent !? Sir, have been |
accused of ''audacity" for appearing |
OH the field in defense of Mr.. Eyre. / !
court a repetition of the charge by |
upon the, following suga
gestion: That as his enemies, to |
prove their interest in the negro, have |
SO large sum to be vast
ed I'M a criminal prosecution, will they |
not rather prove the sincerity of their
profession of philanthrophy by ceas-
ing to persecute man who acted for
the best, and by devoting this large |
sum of $4,000 to a more noble pnr-
pose, for the actual benefit of the ne
groes in Jamaica by the endowment
of a school or schools for the rising
generation? / apologize for the ''au-
dacity" of this idea it emanates from
a savage" Your obedient servant,
SAMUEL WHITE BAKER.
Hedenham Hall, Bungay, Septem-
ber %, 1866. -. ,
A ToUeH SToRY.-There is a place
in Maine so rocky that when the ma
ives plant corn they look for crevices
IN the rocks, and. shoot the grains in