New-York tribune., 1886-03-07
EASY-GOING SLAVERY.
FEATURES OF GRADUAL EMANCIPATION IN
BRAZIL

FEATURES or GRADUAL EMANCIPATION IN
BRAZIL.
lFRou Az AsIoNAL CoRREsro OF TIE TRiBCNRl
RIO DE JANEIRp. February :.
One of the most gratifying evidences OF the
sefcontrol of the BrAzians their ability TO work
political salvation Is the manner IN which
they luaiy freeing tho slaves Those who most
earnestly desire the extinction o slavery are the inte
gent themselves Ii Is true, also, on the
other hand. that most active opposition To abolition
comes from ir IN those who havo large
blood IN their veins On the p4hbta-
tons OF the Interior slave labor l. the only Iud Of Labor
to hid any extent ana the great problem with The
cofccgrowcrs (. what TO do for la5orcrs wlen
slavery Ia finally aDolshcL tax
ing the other day with painter Of
Miuas who has 300 slaves h- plantation and woiIi
be rancd u slavery were su Iieuiy abolished Hs wa
angry with tue Emperor Tor sghns decree proione.
slavery FOR Ever. p1-sDle law 80 rirou
scribe diminish evils Of slavery has been p'sNoi
until the to have no rights "hich the slave
1. bound 10 respect. There In which owner
can make slave work FOR him II tho save objects
The resu that IN the co, the slave taxes Gaze Of
himself when he wants 10 anl gets what he can
the only sign hls bondage being that Il" pays 70 his
owner = small weekly triblto out oi his earnings. On
The plantation. wn're tho p.r,iioI ~ new Iaw,s not
soon iot aud cu-iOn aul tradition arc every tnng tao
owncr inloed get far amount OF work
out OF hls slaves Bat even on the Plantations
the slave, ore Ors Ike the Yas-ais Of foudal baron
than the alave, Of the south before the II often
costs more take slave from pr0gnpo 10 another
than "a. slave Ia worth large b'uS forfeited 10
the Government for every slave 81 removed N"t"ih
standing this Ia the scarcity OF Labor that It costs
great deal 10 buy siave. slave can purchase
his reeIom however or some one can purchase 1t Tor
him. at an extremely low 1yure set b. law.
There Is large and active abolition society In Il and
branches all over th, country This society constant
y buyng tho freedom OF slaves AMI IN tile
cities slaves oonstaut!y buying thnir own
liberty 40 that when tho ten years which the
Euuor,r the bounds OF slavery hall have e'
pired slaves viii Jo left to bo liberated. Already
one province Cara Is denuted of saves AMI the IN
hibants Of that place take great credit to themselves
therefor AMI never trsd ~ bJastnE abbIt IT, Ihey
have stcd much ard held such lubec' OF thanks
giving Te D.ums In their churches and all that
sort thing that they have excited tho Jealousy OF
other Brazan5 who darky hint that IN tho interior OF
thi. scltrghtoous province somo slaves yet tonaiu.
Every cnd OF parents Ia Brazil Is free and
Of course allowed to be brought into the
country child born Of slave parents has to bo taEon
by the owner OF s parents unu II 10 old enough
TO take of itself
Beyond the abolition OF slavery looms In Brazil the
question Of labor There be but solution OF tho
,ein aud Is immigration. How to attract this Is
what il no absorbing miu ds OF the staemen The
labor OF liberated slaves and their descendants Will
never bo suicont Tor the Mood. OF tho eolntr lhry
by nature the most lazy ana worthless iborers III
tons mock the cities Of the seacOIst There they
work just enough TO keep themselves awe, and "a long
as they can yet raw faTina and casaAch are happy.
one great drawback Lomnlgratio 10 aE 10 the bad
reputatio for health whicn the country has in Europe
The northern seaport towns arc undoubtedly
unhealthy, but in the south Of tho empire
as could wished still. tho no with which yellow
fever regarded aud the difficulty OF making lmni-
grants understand tho vast SIZE OF the Empire ana 1t.
consequent variety OF climates render the work Of at
tracing them here difficult The Argentine. owe. their
great prosperity To the constant TIDE OF lmmlSr"ion
which flowing to their Shores and the BraLians claim
that Argentine agents abroad omit opportunity or
'cruple at no means 10 divert Immigrants from Rio to
Burnos Ayrrs. ,
of onsS S' Sa. and e pr
%.onsne 3r IN santos The patton fund l,a gov
affair, and Is augmouted BY certain fine, aud
teres IL Is devoted TO purchasing the liberty OF slaves
As In ell south American countries the NEGROES OF BraI
z4tiOn TO have taken but slght hold on them
traitlons OF their ancestors The strange Wild song.
and dances which their fathers INDUCED In In Africa
and which they sun preserve, are only outward |
civilization has not been able to obtain q mastery
were more from wounds which bad bsen
systematically sniotea I'D orner r,h ams ,n ag negro
after the OF his ancestors friend told me That
once wsHns Ha sso N pesrT coming down the sroe
Tue street full OF negroes aud 40 the old man came
head, to The dust Tears foil from the eyos Of the
ject their devotion as with tho air worthy OF Francis
Al Payia or Napoleon taking leave OF the Old Guard
he passed on and disappeared II was ascertained that
the Old man warrior King In Africa aud
W.. mnTeuv,r "A fetioh man " OF wondrous power In
ms slavery and his Old tho people OF MS tribe did
not forget beside the Amazon tho devotion they once
sho wed him tho Congo.
There is "a great difference In Brazil between negro
and man win negro blood In his veins ln the states
man with tho least bit negro blood In his veins 10 re-
sarIed a. BLACK man. but IN BraEil msn Win very
little white in veins IL regarded As white man
The peopo OF mixed blood intelligent. ambitiOus.
and occupy ali sorts OF prominent positions In business
ami In pube life II Is not, Of COURSE considered the
'swel thing to have negro blood In ones veins nut
the offence 10 easily forgiven by all except the most OK
elusive snd aristooratlo OF the BrasLians