37/68 Mr.J.declared unhesitatingly that crime had not increased since abolition, but rather the contrary. He represented the special magistrates as the friends of the planters. They loved the _dinners_ which they got at the planters' houses. The apprentices had no sumptuous dinners to give them. The magistrates felt under very little obligation of any kind to assert the cause of the apprentice and secure him justice, while they were under very strong temptations to favor the master. |