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The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4

CHAPTER III
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We would wish also that permission be given as to mention the names of the properties on which matters have assumed a favorable aspect." _Jamaica Morning Journal of Oct.

2_.
GRENADA .-- According to the _Free Press_, it would appear that 'the proprietors and managers of several estates in Duquesne Valley, and elsewhere, their patience being worn out, and seeing the cultivation of their estates going to ruin, determined to put the law into operation, by compelling, after allowing twenty-three or twenty-four days of idleness, the people either to work or to leave the estates.

They resisted; the aid of the magistrates and of the constabulary force was called in, but without effect, and actual violence was, we learn, used towards those who came to enforce the law.

Advices were immediately sent down to the Executive, despatched by a gentleman of the Troop, who reached town about half past five o'clock on Saturday morning last.

We believe a Privy Council was summoned, and during the day, Capt.


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