The Jamaica Insurrection — terrible Fate of the insurgent negroes.
Some of the English journals denounce the horrible massacres committed by Governor Eyre and the planters of Jamaica. One of them remarks:‘ "The accounts of the exploits of the troops are just like the accounts of sportsmen popping away at pheasants in a preserve, and when, after a month of it, on the 7th ultimo, the new pit dug at Morant Bay for negro bodies was filled without any, the general opinion of the disappointed English settlers is reported by the Jamaica Stanard reporter as a universal verdict of 'too soon,' in which he himself heartily concurred. The Daily News says that, if a thousandth part of the tales narrated with heartiest applause by the Jamaica papers are true, then 'hell itself has broke loose in that wretched island. But the demons are not the blacks, who burst into the sudden fury of a single day, and never afterward offered the remotest show of resistance. ' It is said that fifty lives have been taken for every white person killed or wounded in the emeute."
’ A war of races is the only kind which is worse than a war for religion.
