What, then if we had heard that nine-tenths of the emancipated had refused to be employed?
Could that have been counted a failure of the experiment?
Was there any reason to believe that the planters would not resort to every species of oppression compatible with a system of wages?
Before proceeding to the question of wages, however, we invite the reader to scan the temper and disposition of the parties of the other part, viz., the laboring population.

Let us observe more carefully how _they_ behaved at the important period of TRANSITION Two of the sturdiest advocates of slavery, the _Jamaica Standard_ and the _Cornwall Courier_, speak as follows:-- The _Standard_ says--"On Tuesday evening, (July 31), the Wesleyan, and we believe, Baptist Chapels, (St.James') were opened for service--the former being tastefully decorated with branches of the palm, sage, and other trees, with a variety of appropriate devices, having a portrait of her Majesty in the center, and a crown above.

When we visited the Chapel, about 10 o'clock, it was completely full, but not crowded, the generality of the audience well dressed; and all evidently of the better class of the colored and negro population.

Shortly after, we understand, a very excellent and modern sermon, in all political points, was delivered by the Rev.Mr.Kerr, the highly respected pastor.

The congregation was dismissed shortly after 12 o'clock; at which hour the church bell commenced its solemn peal, and a few noisy spirits welcomed in the morning of Freedom with loud cheers, and planted a huge branch, which they termed the "Tree of Liberty," in the center of the two roads crossing the market square." Again the _Standard_ observes, "The long, and somewhat anxiously expected jubilee of Emancipation has arrived, and now nearly passed over, with a remarkable degree of quiet and circumspection.