At Sligoville there are nearly fifty new freeholders.

The negroes are taught to do this by the perpetual worry of their employers, threatening to oust them on every trifling occasion, and withholding part of their wages on the plea of non-performance of work .-- The root of all evil is the Assembly and the Juries.

Nothing requires greater alteration; and I shall never rest, until I see the black man stand the same chance at the bar of his country as the white man .-- The negroes will not work under their former hard task-masters.

They determinedly resist all solicitations to labor with those who treated them ill.

They say that the pain is gone, but the mark remains, and I respect them for this proud feeling.
* * * * * I have come under his displeasure for taking the opinion of Middleton and McDougal, as to the legality of charging the negro hire for his house and grounds, for the three months during which the notices to quit are running .-- Had we not taken these opinions, what a fearful state things might we have been brought to in this country! I am quite satisfied that no rent could be recovered until the expiration of the three months, from which time it would commence to run, and the plaintiff would in law be considered in possession of his lands again, which, in slavery, he was compelled to give to his slave for his support and maintenance.