The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-04-29

Christianity. Under such t-aatme1.
the race vanished. How many we-e
killed Will never De known. The
males estimate - TWO millions, the
largest - six millions. When. for ex-
ample. the Carb slaves ran short n a
district a company OF soldiers and a
Snah fleet would be SEM to a aeighno--
ing Island and FyEce a. many seized
and brought 81 Rs were needed. and
any VINO tried either Ia defend them
selves OT TO escape were put
to tie sword A few CaTxbS survived
n lived like hunted animals. but
whenever the opportunity came. ana
they could oh<a2H a little ~ngDan
they made bloody repr3SalS upon The
Spanish. As the Caribs died oi: Spain
began the importation Of negroes from
Africa.
This depopulation Of the island was
Of indirect aid IN the British SETTLERS.
who began coming over in 1924. They
found many fields OF remarkable fer
tsli1y which were ready for their U.s..
These had been made by the poor
CarFbS. who We're now no more. Bar
bados was the frs. Soon there Were
settlements in Antigua Jamaica,
Nevis. M~ontserra1. ST. Christopher.
the Bahamas. and Trinidad. The is
lands which they took from Spain by
force OF arms We're lready peop.ed
with a mixed race. The main stock
was black, but this had already been
modified by amalgamatton with the
Spanish on the one SIDE, f~reehooters
OF all nations on a second. and the few
survivors Of the Caribs on the third
LOSS OF HER COLONIES.
From that time on until within a re-
cent period the influence ot Spain
seems TO have degraded and deteriorat-
ed humanity IN nearly every island
Their cruelty was inflated. their i'm
morality followed as an example. and
their use OF slave labor adopted by the
governments Of the various settle
ments. From Cuba and Porto Rico
also for many years, an enormous
. Of run was exported 10 their
smaller neighbors. until intemperance
became a universal vice. In the last
century and the beginning of the pres
emf century. either England or Franc
might have had Cuba for the mere
asking, but national jealousy and in
ternational complications prevented
an action which would nave saved che
world a century OF miSgovernment and
the lives of nearly a million human be
ingS. Yet, in this struggle much good
Injured TO this COUNTRY. Spain sold To
us Florida, because she was afraid il
might be taken from her by some Eu-
ropean W She had no love for the
United States. Even in those days her
statesmen looked with profound con-
tempt upon a land in which liberty
and liberation. education and Self-gov-
eminent We're the characteristics. They
would have destroyed this new hereti-
cal commonwealth but for the fact that
according to their Short-stghted states
manShip, American autonomy meant
the weakening, if not the ruin, Of Great
Britain.
Similar cause led them TO transfer
the territory known "a
Louisiana to the French and the
French to sell ii to the United States
when Napoleon Bontparte WAS in great
need of money. Out of the fear and
greed of official Madrid came - US the
jewels of the American crown-Flor-
ida, Louisiana, Missouri,
Iowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas. Nebras-
ka, Kansas, Oklahoma, Montana. wy
oming, Idaho, Oregon, and Washing
ton.-Was hington Post.