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Jamaica

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
September
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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- W. W. Anderson, a ofthe Jamaica bar, write3 to Judge Jay, of NewYork: !iWe have the most perfect relinnce on the' black and brown population; in fact, the f'is:inclions of color are scarcely thouglu of. The grealer part bij far of our island vii'fa con.-" sists of thnl ctuss: and we have two rjueuu's regments, con8Ísüng entirely of blacks, excepting the orficers. The great part of tho quccn's troop ore white, probably two-thirds. The numérica! majority preponderates enofmously in favor of the blacks, f you reckon the militia. "I know not how to answer any question about the confidence placed, respectively, in the black and white troops - the tmth being, thntthe queslion ncver, for an instant, suggests itscli to any' one here. Our numerous pólice (which the absurd 'ears of the legislatnrea few years ïgo raised) is composed almost tn'.irely of bbick and brown pereons. lts numbers will eoon be reduced. Evcry body sees i; to be a needless ex pense." DIFSir James Graham rccehtly announccd in the British Honse of commona that theic waa 1. 200.000 persons in England and Wales now '■iepending upon paroclnal charity for sustenance, 1 out of every 13 of the whole population being on the poor rates! Such are the genuine effect of aristocracy and monarchy. Are there any aristocrats in our Hepublic who would bring abouf the liko state of starvaiion hcrcT

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Signal of Liberty
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