Here Mr.B.was hailed by a hoary-headed man, sitting at the side of his house.

He said that he was lame and sick, and could not work, and complained that his master did not give him any food.

All he had to eat was given him by a relative.

As the master was not at home, Mr.B.could not attend to the complaint at that time, but promised to write the master about it in the course of the day.

He informed us that the aged and disabled were very much neglected under the apprenticeship.
When the working days are over, the profit days are over, and how few in any country are willing to support an animal which is past labor?
If these complaints are numerous under the new system, when magistrates are all abroad to remedy them, what must it have been during slavery, when master and magistrate were the same! On one of the plantations we called at the house of an emigrant, of which some hundreds have been imported from different parts of Europe, since emancipation.