So we will take the beam out of our own eye, before we try to take the mote from the Negro's.

The latter, however, no man can do.

For the Negro, being a freeholder and the owner of his own cottage, must take the mote out of his own eye, having no landlord to build cottages for him; in the meanwhile, however, the less said about his lodging the better.
In the villages, however, in Maraval, for instance, you see houses of a far better stamp, belonging, I believe, to coloured people employed in trades; long and low wooden buildings with jalousies instead of windows--for no glass is needed here; divided into rooms, and smart with paint, which is not as pretty as the native wood.

You catch sight as you pass of prints, usually devotional, on the walls, comfortable furniture, looking-glasses, and sideboards, and other pleasant signs that a civilisation of the middle classes is springing up; and springing, to judge from the number of new houses building everywhere, very rapidly, as befits a colony whose revenue has risen, since 1855, from 72,300 pounds to 240,000 pounds, beside the local taxation of the wards, some 30,000 pounds or 40,000 pounds more.
What will be the future of agriculture in the West Indian colonies I of course dare not guess.

The profits of sugar-growing, in spite of all drawbacks, have been of late very great.