Tlhe population has decreased from 400.OOU in 1779 to less than 50.000. including 6.000 foreigners. in 1875. No sugar can be produced except by the manual labor of the natives of those islandsYet today there is scarcely a pound of sugar produced by the natives. It is produced by Asiatics. Twentythree thousand laborersall Asiatics except about 1.584. who are nativesare. employed upon these plantations* * * and gentlemen are frightened at this pr6duct of a handful ot starving natives lest it may interfere with the revenues of this nation. These were the predictions made when this improvident and unwise treaty was under consideration. Congressman Morrison.
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