Things, he said, were going ruinously in Jamaica.

The English government were mad for abolishing slavery.

The negroes of Jamaica were the most degraded and ignorant of all negroes he had ever seen.

He had travelled in all our Southern States, and the American negroes, even those of South Carolina and Georgia, were as much superior to the negroes of Jamaica, as Henry Clay was superior to him.

He said they were the most ungrateful, faithless set he ever saw; no confidence could be placed in them, and kindness was always requited by insult.