Mr.Gordon, the overseer of Williamsfield, is among the fairest specimens of planters.

He has naturally a generous disposition, which, like that of Mr.Kirkland, has out-lived the witherings of slavery.
He informed us that his people worked as well under the apprenticeship system, as ever they did during slavery; and he had every encouragement that they would do still better after they were completely free.

He was satisfied that he should be able to conduct his estate at much less expense after 1840; he thought that fifty men would do as much then as a hundred do now.

We may add here a similar remark of Mr.Kirkland--that forty freemen would accomplish as much as eighty slaves.

Mr.Gordon hires his people on Saturdays, and he expressed his astonishment at the increased vigor with which they worked when they were to receive wages.
He pointedly condemned the driving system which was resorted to by many of the planters.