There was not the least disposition of gaiety.
We were also informed by planters and missionaries in every part of the island, that there was not a single dance known of, either day or night, nor so much as a fiddle played.

There were no riotous assemblies, no drunken carousals.

It was not in such channels that the excitement of the emancipated flowed.

They were as far from dissipation and debauchery, as they were from violence and carnage.

GRATITUDE was the absorbing emotion.