EMANCIPATION" IN BEAZIL.

Southland Times, Issue 716, 28 August 1867, Page 3

EMANCIPATION" IN BEAZIL.

(From the " New York Tribune.") The telegraph brings us news that the last formidable stronghold of slavery remaining in Christendom has virtually fallen before the irresistible advance of the great movement for universal freedom and 'equal rights. Brazil has given the death-blow to the wicked system which has been so long both her grievous burden and her foul disgrace. Henceforth every child born into, the empire is free, and in twenty years the chains Trill fall from the limbs of her last surviving slave. By this decree nearly 3,000,000 blacks are raised up from the dust ; and though but few of this generation can hope to see the day of emancipation, it is much for them to know that the curse which rested on the parents will no longer be transmitted to the children ; it is something that the younger of them have a bright although distant future to look toward and to wait for. Very likely, too, the dying institution will not be suffered to linger out the whole of the existence which the new law accords to, it ; as the benefits of free labor to the whole country become appreciated, fresh legislation may I hasten the advent of national liberty and justice. ' '...'..'' The State which has just taken this important step in the road of progress, covers about 3,000,000 square miles of the richest, portion of the . South American continent, being a little greater in extent than the United States. Nature has given it the most magnificant river system in the world. The Amazon rolls its mighty, waves through the dense forests of the northern, provinces — forests teeming with all the gorgeousness and luxuriance of the tropics, rich in precious woods and valuable fruit-bearingtrees, and alive with the most brilliant forms of animal nature; and its tributaries are streams which in any other part of the ', world would be called rivers of the firstclass. The Bio Francisco in the east, and the affluents of the La Plata in the South, give fertility and channels of easy intercommunication to enormous extents of country, while in the interior stretch the great grass-grown pampas, with their countless herds of cattle, covering a region seven times as big as the whole of Prance. There are mines of gold; there is coal in plenty; there. is iron; and the annual product of. dimpnds is not far from 2,000,000 dols. There is not a desert in the empire. The whole is a rich loam, covered with a vegetation unequalled for i .magnificence and beauty, except perhaps, in some of the fairy-like islands of the I Indian Ocean. Even with her present meagre (development, Brazil supplies half the world with coffee, and sends abroad also great quantities of cotton, sugar, and tobacco. She has exported more of coffee and sugar in eighteen months than of diamonds in eighty years. It is three hundred years since the first permanent settlement of the country by Europeans ; yet all this time, and with ail the marvelous wealth of the soil and the charms of a genial climate to tempt immigration, not one acre in a hundred and fifty has ever felt the labor of the husbandman; and immense reigons are almost, as unknown to-day as when Pinccn the companion of Columbus, first took possession of the country in the namo of the King of Castile. : Six y ears have witnessed the emancipation"of 45,000,000 serfs in Eussia ; the liberation of 4,000,000 slaves in the United States, and the virtual manumission of 3,000,000 negroes in Brazil. It is a glorious six years' work— 52,000,000 of men restored to freedom, and a curse taken off three of the largest empires of the world ! The little that remains to do cannot rest long undone. The miserable relic . of barbarism lingers now only on a few islanders belonging to the Spanish crown; and the slaveholder who in the face of the events of the lastfew years, hopes to retain, the fight to buy and. sell his fellowmen, even in those islands* must be sanguine indeed. \