As they will consider it degrading to work, and still more so to beg, they will be thrown into extremely embarrassing circumstances.

It is thought that many of this class will leave the country, and seek a home where they will not be ashamed to work for their subsistence.

We were forcibly reminded of the oft alleged objection to emancipation in the United States, that it would impoverish many excellent families in the South, and drive delicate females to the distaff and the wash-tub, whose hands have never been used to any thing--_rougher than the cowhide_.

Much sympathy has been awakened in the North by such appeals, and vast numbers have been led by them to conclude that it is better for millions of slaves to famish in eternal bondage, than that a few white families, here and there scattered over the South, should be reduced to the humiliation of _working_.
_Hostility to emancipation_ prevailed in Barbadoes.

That island has always been peculiarly attached to slavery.