sponse to the prayers of the worshippers. A dance closes the ceremony. The king puts his hand on the box; a tremor seizes him, which is communicated to the circle. A delirious whirl or dance ensues, heightened by the free use of tafia. The weakest fall as dead, on the spot. The bacchanalian revelers, always dancing and turning about, are borne away into a place close at hand, where sometimes, under the tripple excitement of promiscuous intercourse, drunkenness and darkness, scenes are enacted, enough to make the impassable gods of Africa itself gnash their teeth with horror."

Can it be possible that the advocates of emancipation find in such lamentable evidences of retrogression, encouragement for continued zeal in a cause that suffers debasement without a remedy? And yet we are told, only give the negro a chance, and he will become equal to the whites!" Mr. Webley, a missionary, in writing to the London Missionary Herald, in 1850, says:

"These Vaudoux almost deluge the Haytien part of the island. They practice witchcraft and mysticism, to an almost indefinite extent. They are singular adepts at poisoning-a person rarely escapes then when he has been fixed upon as a victim."

Of this number, after twenty-eight years of freedom, only 50,726 could read or write. It will be seen also, that the white population decreases, while the negro and mulatto portion rapidly increased, thus showing that in time the white race must be merged and lost in the black race-a not very flattering aspect for the pride of blood.

Jamaica, like the other West Indies. abounds in all the rich minerals, woods and tropical vegetation The Island has been under the paw of the British lion ever since the halcyon days of Cromwell, and flourished without stint till 1838, the expiration of the apprentice system, under the emancipation act. Since that time the progress of the Island, has been positively downward in all that constitutes

Sugar, hhds.

Upon which the author of Results of Emancipation in the North and West India Islands, remarks:

"The only crop that had increased was that of Pimento or 'all-spice,' the increase of which, instead of being an evidence of the industry of the negro, is the reverse. The Pimento tree grows wild in Jamaica, and rapidly spreads over land formerly under cultivation. As the plantations were abandoned, they were overrun with this tree, and the negro women and children pick the berries without the trouble of cultivation. The coffee tree to a certain extent is like the Pimento, and grows wild in many places, hence the production of coffee has not fallen off in the same proportion as that of sugar, which can only be produced by careful cultivation. The coffee crop of Jamaica, however, in 1813, before the overthrow of slave labor, was 34,045,585 Ibs, but the average crop for the past ten years has not been over 5,000,000 lbs., while the sugar crop had fallen in 1853 as low as 20,000 hhds. These facts and statistics demonstrate the downhill progress of Jamaica, and show what may be expected wherever the experiment of free negroism is attempted.

The rapidity with which estates have been abandoned in Jamaica, and the decrease in the taxable property of the Island, is also astounding. The movable and the immovable property of Jamaica was estimated at £50,000,000, or nearly $250,000,000. In 1850 the assessed valuation had fallen to £11,500,000. In 1857 it was reduced to £9,500,00, and Mr. WESTMORELAND in a speech in the Jamaica House of Assembly, stated it was believed that the falling off would be £2,000,000 more in 1852. From a report made to the House of Assembly, of the number and extent of the plantations abandoned, during the years 1848, 149, '50, '51 and '52, we gather the following facts: Sugar estates abandoned,....

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The total number of acres thus thrown out of cultivation, in five years, were 391,187. This is only a sample, for the same process has been going on ever since emancipation. "In the five years immediately succeeding emancipation the abandoned estates stood as follows:

"These plantations employed 39,383 laborers, whose industry was therefore at once lost to the world, and the articles they had raised were just so much extracted from consumption. The price of these articles--sugar and coffee, was increased, on account of diminished production, and that increased cost represented the tax which the world paid for the privilege of allowing Sambo to loll in idleness. The Cyclopedia of Commerce says:

"The negro is rapidly receding into a savage state, and that unless there is a large and immediate supply of emigrants, all society will come to a speedy end, and the Island become a second Hayti!'

PUBLIC DEBT OF JAMAICA INCREASING.

Appleton's New American Cyclopedia

says that the public debt of Jamaica has increased from £529,856 in 1847, to £913,618 in 1857," or an increase of $191,880 per annum.

TESTIMONY OF THE LONDON TIMES.

The London Times, the court organ of the British government, is forced to acknowledge the bad results of emancipation. Such a candid admission from such a source is worth a thousand theoretical, sentimental and fanatical sermons and speeches, that seek to arouse the prejudices, without stopping to consider results or offer remedies. The Times says:

"There is no blinking the truth. Years of bitter experience-years of hope deferred, of self devotion unrequited, of prayers unanswered, of sufferings divided, of insults unresented, of contumely patiently endured, have convinced us of the truth. It must be spoken out boldly and energetically, despite the wild mockings of howling cant. The freed West India slave will not till the soil for wages. The free son of the ex-slave is as obstinate as his sire. He will not cultivate lands which he has not bought for his own. Yams, mangoes and plantains-these satisfy his wants. He cares not for your cotton. Sugar, coffee and tobacco, he cares but little for, and what matters it to him that the Englishman has sunk his thousands and tens of thousands on mills, machinery and plantations, which now totter on the languishing estates that for years has only returned him to beggery and debt? He eats his yams and sniggers at 'Buckra." We know not why this should be, but so it is! The negro has been bought with a price--the price of English taxation and English toil. He has been redeemed from bondage by the sweat and travail of some millions of hard working Englishmen! Twenty millions of pounds sterling-$100,000,000-have been distilled from the brains and muscles of the free English laborer, of every degree, to fashion the West India negro into a "free, independent laborer.' 'Free and independent' enough he has bacome, God knows, but laborer, he is not, and so far as we can see, never will be. He will sing hymns and quote texts, but honest, steady industry he not only detests, but despises!"

Such is the candid admission of the official organ of the British Government, uttered about the time-some two or three years agowhen a British Lord submitted a serious proposition in Parliament to return to slavery in the West Indies, under the name and guise of cooley indentures. We have forgotten the noble Lord's name, but recollect quite well the general comments it encountered, both in Great Britain and this country.

ABOLITION PROPHECIES THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Let emancipationists look on the above picture, and then on the following by that great champion of abolition, as a prophesy, in 1833 -the Rev. Dr. CHANNING:

"The planters in general would suffer little, if at all,

from emancipation. This change would make them richer rather than poorer. One would think, indeed, from the common language on the subject, that the negroes were to be annihilated by being set free; that the whole labor of the South was to be destroyed by a single blow. But the colored man, when freed, will not vanish from the soil; he will stand there with the same muscles as before, only strung anew by liberty; with the same limbs to toil, and with stronger motives to toil than before. He will work from hope, not fear; will work for himself, not others; and unless all the principles of human nature are reversed under a black skin, he will work better than before.

"We believe that agriculture will revive, our worn out soils will be renewed, and the whole country assume a brighter aspect under free labo..

TROLLOP AND THE LONDON TIMES.

This has been the syren song of the abolitionists for centuries, but in no case does it tally with historical or physical facts. Mr. Anthony Trollop, an Englishman, who has written a book on Jamaica, seems to take the other view of the matter, from actual observation, and not from theory, and the London Times thus disposes of the case:

"A sorvile race, peculiarly fitted by nature for the hardest physical work in a burning climate. The negro has no desire for property strong enough to induce him to labor with sustained power. He lives from hand to month. In order that he may have his dinner and some small finery, he will work a little, but after that he is content to lie in the sun. This, in Jamaica, he can very easily do, for emancipation and free trade have combined to throw enormous tracts of land out of cultivation, and on these the negro squats, getting all that he wants, with very little trouble, and sinking in the most resolute he refuses to work after 10 o'clock in the morning. No, fashion to the savage state. Lying under his cotton tree, tank 'ee, massa, me tired, now; me no want more money.' Or by the way of variety, he may say: No, workee no more; money no nuff; workee no pay.' And so the planter must see his cane foul with weeds, because he cannot prevail on Sambo to earn a second shilling by and threatens him with starvation. His answer is: No, going into the corn-fields. He calls him a lazy nigger, massa; no starvee now; God send plenty yam.' These yams, be it observed, on which Sambo lives, and on the strength of which he declines to work, are grown on the planter's own ground, and probably planted at his own

expense.

"There lies the shiny, oily, odorous negro under his mango-tree, eating the lucious fruit in the sun. He sends his black urchin up for a bread fruit, and behold, the fam

table is spread. He pierces a cocoanut, and lo! there is his beverage. He lies on the ground surrounded by oranges, bananas and pine apples. Why should he work? Let Sambo himself reply; No, Massa, me weak in me belly; me no workee to-day; me no like workee just um little moment.' This is a graphic description of the negro character where the climate gives him a chance to show out his real nature. The same author says that one-half fee-plantations have gone back into a state of bush.” of the sugar-estates, and more than one-half of the cof

FREE NEGROES WON'T WORK IN AFRICA.

Negroes seldom ever go voluntarily into the field to work. Of all the negros in the North how many do we see in the fields, the workshops or at the forge? Those who do labor, as a general rule, are to be found in the capacity of servants in the towns and cities, or retailing fruits and nuts at a corner stand MUNGO PARK, many years ago, writing of his travels in Africa, said:

"Paid servants-persons of free condition, voluntarily working for pay-are unknown here."

Such is the universal testimony of all travellers who allude to the subject.

CHARACTER OF FREE NEGROES.

We copy as follows from Results of Emancipation, before alluded to:

"In Lewis' West Indies, written seventeen years before emancipation, it is remarked:-'As to free blacks, they are unfortunately lazy and improvident; most of them half starved, and only anxious to live from hand to mouth. Even those who profess to be tailors, carpenters or coopers, are, for the most part, careless, drunken and dissipated, and never take pains sufficient to attain to any dexterity in their trades. As for a free negro hiring himself out for plantation labor, no instance of such a thing was ever known in Jamaica! Earl GREY said in the House of Lords, June 18, 1852, "That it was established by statistical facts that the negroes were idle, and falling back in civilization;-that relieved from the coercion to which they were freely subjected, and a couple of days labor giving them enough food for a fortnight, the climate rendering clothing and fuel not necessary to life, they had no earthly motive to give a greater amount of service than for mere subsistance."

MORE TESTIMONY.

"Sir H. LIGHT and Gov. BARKLEY have both shown also, that the majority of the free negroes of the West Indies are living in idleness, and the French colonies, according to a work from M. VACHEROT, published a few years ago, at Paris, demonstrate the same ruinous result under the emancipation act.

CAPTAIN HAMILTON'S STATEMENT.

"Capt. HAMILTON, on his examination as a witness before a select committee of Parliament, stated that Jamaica, without any exaggeration had become a desert !!'

MR. BIGELOW'S VIEWS.

"In 1850, Mr. JOHN BIGELOW, then one of the editors of the New York Evening Post, paid a visit to Jamaica, and wrote a book thereon. As the testimony of an antislavery man, his statements are given. Mr. BIGELOW says that the land of that island is as prolific as any in the world. It can be bought for $5 to $10 per acre, and five acres confer the right of voting, and eligibility to public offices. Planters offer $1,50 per day for labor; sixteen days labor will enable a man to buy land enough to make him a voter, and the market of Kingston offers a great demand for vegetables at all times. These facts, said Mr. BIGELOW, place indepence within the reach of every black. But what are the results? There has been no increase in voters in twenty years. Lands run wild. Kingston gets its vegetables from the United States!'

MR. BAIRD'S OPINION.

"But we will accumulate proof-pile it up, if necessary. Mr. Robert Baird, who is an enthusiastic advocate of 'the glorious act of British Emancipation,' en visiting the West Indies for his health, could not fail to be struck with the desolate appearance there.

"That the West Indies,' says Mr. Baird, are always grumbling, is an observation often heard, and no doubt it is very true that they are so. But let any one who thinks that the extent and clamor of the complaint exceeds the magnitude of the distress which has called it forth, go to the West Indies and judge for himself. Let him see with his own eyes the neglected and abandoned estates, the uncultivated fields, fast hurrying back into a state of nature, with all the speed of tropical luxuriance-the dismantled and silent machinery, the crumbling walls and deserted mansions, which are familiar sights in most of the British West Indian colonies! Let him then transport him. self to the Spanish Islands of Porto Rico and Cuba, and witness the life and activity which prevail in these slave colonies. Let him observe for himself the the activity of the slaves-the improvements daily making in the cultivation of the fields, and in the process carried on at the ingenois, or sugar mills-and the general, indescribable air of thriving and prosperity which surround the wholeand then let him come back to England and say, if he honestly can, that the British West Indian planters and proprietors are grumblers, who complain without adequate cause!

GOV. WOOD'S EXPERIENCE.

"Ex-Gov. Wood, of Ohio, who paid a visit to Jamaica in 1853, and who is no friend to slavery, says:

"Since the blacks have been liberated, they have become indolent, insolent, degraded, and dishonest. They are a rude, beastly set of vagabonds, lying naked about the streets, as filthy as the Hottentots, and I believe worse. On getting to the wharf of Kingston, the first thing the blacks of both sexes, perfectly naked, came swarming about the boat, and would dive for small pieces of coin, that were thrown by the passengers. On entering the city, the stranger is annoyed to death by black beggars, at every step, and you must often show them your pistol, or an uplifted cane, to rid yourself of their importunities.'

SEWELL'S VIEWS OF KINGSTON-A GOD-FORSAKEN PLACE.

"Sewell, in his work on the Ordeal of Free Labor, in which he defends emancipation, and pleads for still more extended privileges to the blacks, says of Kingston:

"There is not a house in decent repair; not a wharf in good order; no pavement, no sidewalk, no drainage, and scanty water; no light. There is nothing like work done. Wreck and ruin, devastation and neglect. The inhabitants, taken en masse, are steeped to the eyelids in immorality. The population shows a natural decrease. Illegitimacy exceeds legitimacy. Nothing is replaced that time destroys. If a brick tumbles from a house to the street it remains there. If a spout is loosened by the wind, it hangs by a thread, till it falls. If furniture is accidently broken, the idea of having it mended is not entertained. A God-forsaken place, without life or energy. Old, dilapidated, sickly, filthy, cast away from the anchorage of Yet this sound morality, of reason and common sense. wretched hulk is the Capital of an Island-an Island, the most fertile in the world. It is blessed with a climate the most glorious; it lies rotting in a shadow of mountains that can be cultivated from summit to base with every product of the tropic and temperate regions. It is the mistress of a harbor wherein a thousand line-of-battle ships can ride safely at anchor.'

"We might fill a volume with such quotations, showing the steady decline of the Island, but it is well to note the moral condition of the negro. The American Missionary Association, is the strongest kind of Abolition testimony in regard to the moral condition of the negroes. The American Missionary, a monthly paper, and organ of the Association, for July, 1855, has the following quotation from the letters of one of the Missionaries:

"A man here, may be a drunkard, a liar, a Sabbathbreaker, a profane man, a fornicator, an adulterer, and such like, and be known to be such, and go to chapel, and hold up his head there, and feel no disgrace for these things, because they are so common, as to create a public sentiment in his favor. He may go to the communion table, and cherish a hope of Heaven, and not have his hopes disturbed. [A perfect paradise for BEECHER and GREELEY. I might tell of persons guilty of some, if not of all these things, ministering in holy things.'

FROM REPORT OF AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.

"The report of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society of 1853, page 170, says of the nego:

Their moral condition is very far from being what it ought to be. It is exceedingly dark and distressing.Licentiousness prevails to a most alarming extent among the people. The almost universal prevalence of intemperance is another prolific source of moral darkness and degradation of the people. The masses, among all classes, from the Governor in his palace to the peasant in his hut -from the bishop in his gown to the beggar in his ragsare all slaves to their cups.'

statement that slavery had done more for the moral im

provement of the negro in this respect than he was at all disposed to do for himself. "Mr. UNDERHILL endorses the stories of the 'crowds of

bastard children' in the Island, and says it is 'too true.' 'Outside the non-conformist communities,' he says, 'neglect of marriage is almost universal, One clergyman informed me, that of seventeen infants brought to his church for baptism, fifteen at least would be of illegitimate origin.' In fact, from all the admissions made, it does not appear there is any more marriage in Jamaica than in Africa. The churches, Mr. UNDERHILL allows, are less attended than formerly, and there is evidently little of the religious training of the whites left among the people. The negro, however, has all the advantages of impartial freedom,' and the highest offices of the state are open to colored men-they are found (says Mr. U.) in the Assembly, in the Executive, on the bench and at the bar. All colors mix freely.' This would be the paradise for SEWARD, PHILLIPS and GREELEY.

LOSS OF LABOR AND DECAY OF ESTATES.

"Mr. UNDERHILL estimates the annual loss of wages to the people from the decay of estates, and plantations, cannot be less than three hundred thousand pounds, or $1,500,000. Negroes who work at all cannot be prevailed upon to do so generally more than four days in the week, and rarely five. Mr. U. also states that it has been officially ascertained that two-thirds of the persons employed on sugar estates are women and children; yet, notwithstanding all these facts, the anti-slaveryite still adheres to his hobby. He has excuses and palliations for his friend, the negro. True, Jamaica is ruined, but still emancipation is a success. The seasons were poor, the estates were mortgaged-the planters have not treated the blacks kindly, and they have bought patches of ground of their own, rather than labor for others. Such are some of the excuses of the friends of the negro, but the facts still stand out in bold relief, despite the assertions of 'negro missionaries,' who are interested in keeping up the delusion. The facts they do admit. They cannot deny or controvert them. This is all we ask. We need none of their excuses. In order to relieve themselves of the odium of having ruined the fairest Island of the Antilles, they will naturally look for reasons not chargeable to themselves, but figures do not lie. The exports of Jamaica have been gradually decreasing ever since "slavery" in the Island was interfered with, until they have dwindled down to insignificance, and as the London Times says, there is no blinking the truth-the negro will not work for wages,' and hence the tropics are going back to jungle and bush, while white men are taxed double the price they ought to be for all tropical products."

NEGROES ONLY DESIRE TO BE FREED FROM LABOR.

We have a vivid illustration of the fact that negroes will not work when they can avoid it, by those set "free in the rebel states, by the operation of our armies. A correspondent of a New York paper says:

Their highest idea of freedom is to be freed from labor, and permitted to bask in the sunshine of idleness."

MR. LINCOLN'S TESTIMONY.

Mr. LINCOLN in his reply to the Chicago 'Divines, said:

"And suppose they (the negroes) could be induced by a proclamation from me, to throw themselves upon us, what should we do with them? Gen. BUTLER wrote me a few days since that he was issuing more rations to the slaves who had rushed to him than to all the white troops under his command! They eat! eat! and that is all!!"

MR. UNDERHILL ON CUBA.

The facts we have given relative to several of the principal freedomized West India colonies are true of all, and to the end it may not be said that the islands where abolition agita

tion has had no foothold, are in as bad way as their neighbors, we will permit an Abolitionist to tell his own story in his own way. Mr. UnDERHILL makes this comparison between Jamaica and Cuba. Of Havana (Cuba) he says:

It's harbor is one of the finest in the world, and is crowded "It is the busiest and most prosperous of all the Antilles. merchandise; and the general aspect is one of great comwith shipping. Its wharves and warehouses are piled with value of nine millions sterling ($45,000,000) and the cusmercial activity. Its exports nearly reach the annual tomers furnish an annual tribute to the mother country, pation. Eight thousand ships annually resort to the harover and above the cost of government and military occubor of Cuba."