He stated that the planters were doing comparatively nothing to prepare the negroes for freedom.

"_Their whole object was to get as much sugar out of them as they possibly could_." We received a call from the Rev.Mr.Wooldridge, one of the Independent missionaries.

He thinks the conduct of the planters is tending to make the apprentices their bitter enemies.

He mentioned one effect of the apprenticeship which had not been pointed out to us before.

The system of appraisement, he said, was a _premium upon all the bad qualities of the negroes and a tax upon all the good ones_.