Let no man hold possession of land without having earned, or inherited, money enough to purchase it, as a guarantee of his ability and respectability, or--as in the case of Coolies past their indenture's--as a commutation for rights which he has earned in likewise.

But let the coloured man of every race be encouraged to become a landholder and a producer in his own small way.

He will thus, not only by what he produces, but by what he consumes, add largely to the wealth of the colony; while his increased wants, and those of his children, till they too can purchase land, will draw him and his sons and daughters to the sugar-estates, as intelligent and helpful day-labourers.
So it may be: and I cannot but trust, from what I have seen of the temper of the gentlemen of Trinidad, that so it will be..