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Jamaica, West Indies

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
June
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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A letter in the New York Commercial Advettiser, datiid at Kingston, (Jam.) on the 2d uit., makes the folio wing intcresting statement. We are duing well in Jamaica. It waé a relief in me to lind that since 1 left the island, eighu een morihs before, a favorable change of.èenü-, inent had occurrudl There is the prospect of a good erop, after two years of drought and unexampled mercniitile depregsion; our system is ün (iergoing some important niodiiïcaiions, and tha evils under which we have lubored are found to be connected with othcr tningifithan the abolition ofslavery, and the remedies are in coursu of applicntion. One thing i rcmcrkable - our perket ièéling of seeurity. Every one will admit thut in no place can person or property be more Safe. We trust our protection indiscrirninately to black and white eoldiers. By far the mnjoriij' of those under nrnis in tliis country are blacks. pind üie bulk, of our pólice i'orce cuis:s!s of the blacks also. Our colored people af e rapidly advancing.-Some of the rnoni able and highly educatcd men on the islnml are ofihe colored race, und they i.sit in all society without distinction or embnrrassmeut. lic must be a bold and a bad man indeed, who woul a aitcrnpt again to set up in this colony the ol! and lu.ijful distinction. That, and ihjttiiy othcr things, have passed away with the system that disgraced us."

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