From the hill-tops, and the valleys, the cry of a disenthralled people went upward like the sound of many waters, "Glory to God, glory to God." The testimony of the planters corresponds fully with that of the missionaries.
Said R.B.Eldridge, Esq., after speaking of the number emancipated, "Yet this vast body, (30,000,) _glided_ out of slavery into freedom with the utmost tranquillity." Dr.Daniell observed, that after so prodigious a revolution in the condition of the negroes, he expected that some irregularities would ensue; but he had been entirely disappointed.

He also said that he anticipated some relaxation from labour during the week following emancipation.

But he found his hands in the field early on Monday morning, and not one missing.

The same day he received word from another estate, of which he was proprietor,[A] that the negroes had to a man refused to go to the field.

He immediately rode to the estate and found the people standing with their hoes in their hands doing nothing.