But the British Government, by a great fault, if not a crime, has, at the moment when all should have been free, torn from the lately ascendant class, the privileges which were their birthright, another class, now the equals of the former, the rights they had long and fortunately struggled for, and from the emancipated blacks the rights which they fondly expected to enjoy with their personal freedom.
The boon of earlier freedom will not compensate this most numerous part of our population for the injustice and wrong done to the whole Jamaica people.
The documents already adduced are confined almost exclusively to Jamaica.

We will refer briefly to one of the other colonies.

The next in importance is BARBADOS Here has been played nearly the same game in regard to wages, and with the same results.

We are now furnished with advices from the island down to the 19th of December 1838.

At the latter date the panic making papers had tapered down their complainings to a very faint whisper, and withal expressing more hope than fears.