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land at the expense of America, the most indefatigable,

wide-spread, and strenuous exertions have been made for

twenty years through every source that tan influence pub

lic opinion. They have been advocated on so vast a scale

as to beget ft species of negro mania which has already be

como a formidable and dangerous foe to our federal Union.

Hayti, where three-fourths of the indigo of the world was

produced, was no sooner given over to free-negro barba

rism than the British Ki.st Indies, from that time to the

present, (upwards of sixty years,) have had ft conipleto mo

nopoly of the indigo trade and culture. British statesmen

were not glow to perceive that, if the negroes in the sugar

districts of America were emancipated, the production

of sugar would Immediately be monopolized by India.

Hence their love for the negro and their hot haste for the

immediate abolition of negro slavery in America, which

would be the same thing rb an immediate transfer, not

only of sugar, but of the other rich products of tropical ag

riculture, from America to their Asiatic despotism.

British India, although yielding a revenue to its con

querors exceeding the entire revenue of the United States,

and affording an abundance of lucrative offices for the no

bility, is, nevertheless, comparatively worthless and inval

uable to ^hnt it would be if American negro slavery were

abolished, as it then would l>e without a competitor in the

rich products of southern agriculture. The southern States

of this confederacy, Brazil, and Cuba, are the only portions

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The daily union. (1855). Washington [D.C.], 1855-10-19. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82003410/1855-10-19/ed-1/?sp=2

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The daily union, 1855-10-19.