The keeper is a colored man, and so also is the sergeant and most of the policemen.
We visited one other station-house, in a distant part of the island, situated in the district over which Captain Cuppage presides.

We witnessed several trials there which were similar in frivolity and meanness to those detailed above.

We were shocked with the mockery of justice, and the indifference to the interests of the negro apparent in the course of the magistrate.

It seemed that little more was necessary than for the manager or overseer to make his complaint and swear to it, and the apprentice was forthwith condemned to punishment.
We never saw a set of men in whose countenances fierce passions of every name were so strongly marked as in the overseers and managers who were assembled at the station-houses.

Trained up to use the whip and to tyrannize over the slaves, their grim and evil expression accorded with their hateful occupation.
Through the kindness of a friend in Bridgetown we were favored with an interview with Mr.Jones, the superintendent of the rural police--the whole body of police excepting those stationed in the town.