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Show A RACE PHENOMENON. The West India lllurk Men lieginnlng to Oppress the Whites. It is a fact that all over the British West Indies, with tho exception of Barbadoes, and especially in two of tho most valuable and important islands, a steady and determined, though unobtrusive, unob-trusive, effort is making by certain ambitious black and colored men in office, in journalism, and in the professions, pro-fessions, gradually to oust the whites from a commercial enterprise and public life, as a preliminary to making existence generally impossible. Tho home government is over and over again induced to make and confirm appointments ap-pointments of mert who, while apparently appar-ently working in amity with their respective re-spective administrations and with tho white poople they hate, are really doing all in thoir power to subvert the white supremacy; chiefly by pushing black and colored men (whoso only qualifications are reading, writing, and unbounded impudence) iuto subordinate subordin-ate positions where they may hope to leaven the official lump. When ladies are pushed aside in tho streets by black T loafers; when tho black Bervant who steals from you almost under your very syes defies you to prosecute him; when officials of the highest character are libelled in public prints by men beneath be-neath tho intellectual level of an English Eng-lish street boy and that in term9 which, through unscrupulous intermediaries, inter-mediaries, may actually pass to the Colonial office, or even to the House of Commons, as the utterance of white men of position tho time has come to speak out plainly. |