They informed us that they had received intimations that they might be admitted as subscribers to the merchants' exchange if they would apply; but they were in no hurry to make the advances themselves.

They felt assured that not only business equality, but social equality, would soon be theirs, and were waiting patiently for the course of events to bring them.

They have too much self-respect to sue for the consideration of their white neighbors, or to accept it as a condescension and favor, when by a little patience they might obtain it on more honorable terms.

It will doubtless be found in Barbadoes, as it has been in other countries--and perchance to the mortification of some lordlings--that freedom is a mighty leveller of human distinctions.

The pyramid of pride and prejudice which slavery had upreared there, must soon crumble in the dust.
_Indolence and inefficiency among the whites_, was another prominent feature in slaveholding Barbadoes.