N.Nugent._ Again, in a written communication, the same gentleman remarks:--"There is not the slightest feeling of insecurity--quite the contrary.

Property is more secure, _for all idea of insurrection is abolished forever_." "We have no cause now to fear insurrections; emancipation has freed us from all danger on this score." _David Cranstoun, Esq._ Extract of a letter from a merchant of St.John's who has resided in Antigua more than thirty years: "There is no sense of personal danger arising from insurrections or conspiracies among the blacks.

Serious apprehensions of this nature were formerly entertained; but they gradually died away _during the first year of freedom_." We quote the following from a communication addressed to us by a gentleman of long experience in Antigua--now a merchant in St.
John's--_James Scotland, Sen., Esq._ "Disturbances, insubordinations, and revelry, have greatly decreased since emancipation; and it is a remarkable fact, that on the day of abolition, which was observed with the solemnity and services of the Sabbath, not an instance of common insolence was experienced from any freed man." "There is no feeling of insecurity.

A stronger proof of this cannot be given than the dispensing, within five months after emancipation, with the Christmas guards, which had been regularly and uninterruptedly kept, for nearly one hundred years--during the whole time of slavery." "The military has never been called out, but on one occasion, since the abolition, and that was when a certain planter, the most violent enemy of freedom, reported to the Governor that there were strong symptoms of insurrection among his negroes.

The story was generally laughed at, and the reporter of it was quite ashamed of his weakness and fears." "My former occupation, as editor of a newspaper, rendered it necessary for me to make incessant inquiries into the conduct as well as the treatment of the emancipated, and I have _never heard any instance of revenge_ for former injuries.