The employment of the Maroons in Jamaica to hunt down
the quiet people of St. Thomas's, places those who detest the negro in a dilemma. The Maroons are the descendants of escaped negroes who have returned to savage life, with possibly a little Carib and certainly a little Spanish blood among them. They are praised to the skies by their colonel, by the Governor, who actually pardoned a rebel on their remonstrance (an act which must have cost him terrible suffering), and by the planting interest. Either the Govern- ment of Jamaica is right in these encomiums, or it is not. Hit is, then negroes can be so managed that they shall become contented and loyal people, and the case of their detractors falls to the ground; or if it is not, the recommendation of the Maroon is his blood- thirstiness, and the abuse which the Times is full of applies only to such negroes as abandon savagery, and so tread upon planters' heels. We suspect the latter is the truth, and that the friends of the South who write all these things would much rather hang Bishop Crowther, or Mr. Sella Martin, or Mr. F. Douglas, than a Koromantyn who had committed a dozen murders.
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