As long as the Negroes are decently loyal and peaceable, and do not murder their magistrates and drink their brains mixed with rum, nor send delegates to the President of Hayti to ask if he will assist them, in case of a general rising, to exterminate the whites--tricks which the harmless Negroes of Trinidad, to do them justice, never have played, or had a thought of playing--we must remember that we are very seriously in debt to the Negro, and must allow him to take out instalments of his debt, now and then, in his own fashion.

After all, we brought him here, and we have no right to complain of our own work.

If, like Frankenstein, we have tried to make a man, and made him badly; we must, like Frankenstein, pay the penalty.
So much for the Negro.

As for the coloured population--especially the educated and civilised coloured population of the towns--they stand to us in an altogether different relation.

They claim to be, and are, our kinsfolk, on another ground than that of common humanity.