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MANUFACTURING RESOURCES. 



culture of sugar and coffee, and the manufactures to which 

 they give rise. 



They have no new manufactories to resort to, when 

 they are in want of work, no unaccustomed departments 

 of mechanical or agricultural labor are open to receive 

 them, to stimulate their ingenuity and reward their indus- 

 try. When they know how to ply the hoe, pick the coffee- 

 berry, and tend the sugar mills, they have learned about 

 all the industry of the island can teach them. If, in the 

 sixteen years during which the negroes have enjoyed their 

 freedom, they have made less progress in civilization than 

 their philanthropic champions have promised or antici- 

 pated, let the want I have suggested receive some con- 

 sideration. It may be, that even a white peasantry would 

 degenerate under such influences. Reverse this, and when 

 the negro has cropped his sugar or his coffee, create a 

 demand for his labor in the mills and manufactories of 

 which nature has invited the establishment on this island, 

 and before another sixteen years would elapse, the world 

 would probably have some new facts to assist them in esti- 

 mating the natural capabilities of the negro race, of more 

 efficiency in the hands of the philanthropist, than all the 

 appeals which he has ever been able to address to the 

 hearts or the consciences of men. 



It is scarcely necessary for me to state, that the tendency 

 of all the influences I have been considering, is to throw 



