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| 602 TEE &XDJS&OBOUXD SAIL ROAD. obtaining cotton by free labor and by mechanical agency from Jamaica, at » price so far below that at which it can be produced by slave labor, that if we encceed, we shall put an end to the whole system, as no one will be able to afford to carry it on in competition with free labor." * * * " Jamaica is much nearer and easier of access for fugitives from Cuba and Porto Rico, than Canada is to Georgia, Virginia, or Louisiana. If, therefore, we can offer them an asylum and profitable employment on the estate, we shall open up a new Underground Rail Road, or rather enable the slaves to escape from Cuba by getting into a boat, and in one night finding their way to freedom." * * * " There is no doubt they could do this at much less risk than slaves now incur, in order to obtain liberty in America." The proposed estate in Jamaica consists of about one thousand acres, and the shares in this company are X10 each, XI only to be called up immediately, the rest by instalments. The liability is limited. Full information may be obtained by addressing Stephen Bourne, Esq., 55 Charing Cross, London, or the Secretary of the "Jamaica Cotton-growing Company," C. W. Streatfield, Esq. We rejoice to see that this new company is being supported not only by benevolent philanthropists and capitalists in London, but by experienced Manchester manufacturers; among the rest by the excellent Thomas Clegg, so well known for his persevering efforts in West Africa, and by Thomas Baxley, M. P. for Manchester, and a most extensive cotton spinner. Their mills would alone, consume the cotton grown on three such estates as that which it is proposed to cultivate. There is abundant room, therefore, for cultivation of cotton by the emancipated freeholders. Communications have also reached us from Dernerara. Charles Rattray, a valuable Scotch missionary in that colony, was in England last spring, and went back to his adopted country with his mind full fraught with the importance of cotton growing 'within its borders. He happened to have email samples of Demerara cotton with him. These were shown to cotton-brokers and manufacturers in Liverpool and Manchester, and were pronounced to be most excellent—so much so, that specimen gins and a supply of cotton-seed were kindly presented to him at the latter place, before he left England. Mr. Rattray is now bringing the subject before his people, and is also intending to plant with cotton some ground belonging to the Mission station. But we will not further enlarge. Commending our cause to Him, who has promfeed never to forget tl^ poor and needy, and that in His own good time He will arise for their deliverance and " break every yoke." I remain, sincerely and respectfully, your friend, ANNA H. RICHARDSON. 54 Wettmoreland Terrace, Fewcattte-m-Tyne, 9mo., 22, 1860. |