As authority, he is unquestionable.

Before retiring from the practice of medicine, he stood at the head of his profession in the island.

He is now a member of the council, is proprietor of an estate, manager of another, and attorney for six.
The fact that such men as Dr.D., but yesterday large slaveholders, and still holding high civil and political stations, should most cheerfully facilitate our anti-slavery investigations, manifesting a solicitude to furnish us with all the information in their power, is of itself the highest eulogy of the new system.

The testimony of Dr.D.will be found mainly in a subsequent part of the work.

We state, in passing, a few incidentals.