The debates on that occasion proved with what an ill grace they performed that scanty act of justice, and all experience since that period proves how bitterly they repent it.

It is true, we are not now, as before, distressed by hearing recitals of barbarous corporeal punishments, and we are no longer pained by seeing human beings chained to each other by the neck; but, although cruelty has, to a certain extent, ceased, oppression has become ten thousand times more rampant than ever.

Every act which ingenuity or malice can invent, is employed to harass the poor negroes.

Prior to August 1st, the planter studiously avoided every thing like an arrangement with the laborer, and when, on the following Monday, they turned out to work, the paltry pittance of 12-1/2d.

(7-1/2d.
sterl.) was all that in the majority of cases was offered for the services of an able-bodied negro, although 2s.6d.per day (currency), had before been invariably exacted from them, when they were desirous of purchasing the remaining term of their apprenticeship.