They sat together around a circular table, and conversed as freely as though they had been all of one color.

There was no restraint, no uneasiness, as though the parties felt themselves out of place, no assumption nor disrespect, but all the proceedings manifested the most perfect harmony, confidence, and good feeling.
At the same time there was a meeting of the parish committee on roads, at which there was the same intermixture of colors, the same freedom and kindness of demeanor, and the same unanimity of action.

Thus it is with all the political and civil bodies in the island, from the House of Assembly, to committees on jails and houses of correction.

Into all of them, the colored people are gradually making their way, and participating in public debates and public measures, and dividing with the whites legislative and judicial power, and in many cases they exhibit a superiority, and in all cases a respectability, of talents and attainments, and a courtesy and general propriety of conduct, which gain for them the respect of the intelligent and candid among their white associates.
We visited the house of correction for the parish of St.Andrews.

The superintendent received us with the iron-hearted courtesy of a Newgate turnkey.