The Daily Dispatch

EFFECTS OF ABOLITION.

The Caracas correspondent of the N. Y. Herald gives a sombre picture of the effects of negro emancipation in Venezuela. He says that coffee, sugar and cocoa estates, that could not have been purchased for $100,000 before the passage of the law liberating the slaves, could not now be sold for $25,000; that hundreds of estates will be entirely abandoned, and that the negroes will not work one day out of the week; drinking aquardiente and gambling are now the only occupations. Hundreds of families are left without a single servant, and will be compelled to send to Europe for them.

This is but another example of the ruinous effects of negro emancipation. In St. Domingo, in Jamaica, in every island of the West Indies on every spot on the habitable globe in which the same experiment has been tried, precisely the same results have followed. The abolition of slavery is an exemption of the negro from the operation of that universal law of labor which was pronounced by Heaven upon all mankind, for the negro will not work except upon compulsion. But it is an exemption of which the inevitable conditions are moral and physical deterioration, disease and death. It is astonishing that, with the lights of experience shedding such a broad and vivid illumination upon the whole subject, men can be found in the United States to advocate the abolition of slavery in the South, and pretend that it would be a benefit both to the master and slave.