26, 1838.
I gave you in my last, some account of the manner in which the first day of emancipation came and went in this island.

We very soon afterwards received similar accounts from all the neighboring islands.

In all of them the day was celebrated as an occasion "of devout thanksgiving and praise to God, for the happy termination of slavery." In all of them, the change took place in a manner highly creditable to the emancipated, and intensely gratifying to the friends of liberty.

The quiet, good order, and solemnity of the day, were every where remarkable.

Indeed, is it not a fact worth remembering, that whereas in former years, a single day's relaxation from labor was met by the slaves with shouting and revelry, and merry-making, yet now, when the last link of slavery was broken forever, sobriety and decorum were especially the order of the day.
The perfect order and subordination to the laws, which marked the first day of August, are yet unbroken.