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Show 184 islands and immediately there will be a vast inllux into Great Britan: and Ireland, of the sugars of Cuba, Brazil, Louisiana, &c. The inevitable consequence wiJJ be that the sugars of Jamaica will Jose their market, or will fall to a price which cannot remunerate the planter. 'rhe next link in the chain of disaster wiJJ be a large one. 'rho planter will withdraw from the production of sugar, and will undergo great difliculty in his attempts to apply his grounds and apparatus to any other purpose. In the meantime the laborer will Jose his employment and his wages; the merchant and shopkeeper will find their resources of profit suddenly cut otr; and, lastly, the abolitionist will discover, to his dismay, that a fresh impetus of vast force is given to slavery and the slave-trade, by the opening of a new market of incalculable value, to the producers of slavegrown sugar. Let not the reader for a moment imagine that this view of the effect of the proposed equalization, is grounded on the notion that slave labor is S\lpcrior, in point of cheapness, to free labor. Abundant are the evidences which have been afforded me, both here and in other isltlllds of the West Indies, that the contrary is the fact. But there is a vast diOerence in different regions, as to the capacity of producing sugar at a cheap rate; and long before freedom was enacted, the protecting duties were in force, to prevent a ruinous competition between the sugars of Jamaica, &c., 1t11d the cheaper article produced in Cuba and elsewhem. 'l'hcre is said to be a great saving to the colonists of Cuba and Porto Rico, in the expense of producing sugar, not only from the peculiar nature of the ~oil, which requires, for its cultivation, a small comparative amount of labor, but from the inexpensive character of their buildings and works; also from the circumstance that the proprietors are generally resident on the spot; and there is reason w believe that these persons are satisfied with a lower rate pf profit than falls to the lot of the British proprietor. When the energies of freedom are fully developed, they will, I trust, enable Jamaica to cope even with those natural inequalities, 185 which, at present, give an regwns. advantage to o the r sugar-growing In the meantime it . . , d . . IS evidently . b an the aboltt10nists to Ia . meum cnt on the planters . . . . ' Y as•de their £ . . to umt~ m pelitiOning parliament . . ormcr Jealousies, and twn. fh01r joint allpe· 1 . agmnst the proposed equalizau ' supported · b . common principles of · . as It o vwusly is by the JUStice, as well as tl scarce\ y fail to be effect 1 w· lose of mercy, could ua . Jth ren-a d t h ought to be informed ho b' r o t e laborers they w greatly the 8 f ' must depend upon thci . uccess o such an appeal . . . r exertwns Tl dunuushed supply of sug f · 10 consequence of a . ar rom our colo . . of the pnce of the article t 1 Hies, Is the undue rise f a lOme. 'l'hen foil o a vast manufacturino- d . ows, on the part b an agncu\tural I . natural clamor for cheap s popu alion, a most ugar i and from that 1 naturally arise a yieldin"' 1 c amor may as b on t le part of our r l finally, the equalization of th d . u ers, and, Here then is a stimulus to e ~ties, with all its fearful results. f contmuous labor in the d · o sugar, which may most 1 . . pro uctwn egJtunately be brou ht h understandin"' and feelin"' of . g orne to the " "' every peasant h W I am confident that thousands of them m t . e . est Indies. prove themselves to be . m JamaiCa, would very much alive to such . They are not on] y watchful . . 1 . . a stimulus. I ove! t leu· own mterests b t kn 10\V to feel for the woes of their b. . . ' u ow world. rethlen •n other parts of the In thus stating the grounds on whi 1 a hearty union of all p 1. . J c 1 I feet the necessity of . .. ar 1es JD amaica · . temporal welfare of the . I· d ' Ill promotmg the !san I am far fr · di insinuate that the elements of' ros . . om mtcn ng to not already powerfully at work p'rlper~ty, m this colony, are the sway of freedom to .- lat t cy are at work, under . ' an extent, and With an e . Will soon produce . ' nergy, winch doubt N conspicuous results, I have not the smallest mysel~ rcc:i~:~o;,~on~re I th; aclmowledgments which I have the present diminutio: ~; e~s,d both of sugar and coffee, that from causes wlti I I p!O uce on theJr estates has arisen that they are loo~ 1 la~e no\~ ceased,. or are subsiding. ; and ong orwa!d lt~; decJded incrense of produc- |