Besides, they have very _strong local attachments_, and these would bind them to the properties.

These planters also argue, from _the great willingness_ of the apprentices now to work for money, during their own time, that they will not be likely to relinquish labor when they are to get wages for the whole time.

There was no doubt much truth in the remark of a planter in St.Thomas in the East, that if _any_ estates were abandoned by the negroes after 1840, it would be those which had harsh managers, and those which are so mountainous and inaccessible, or barren, that they _ought_ to be abandoned.

It was the declaration of a _planter_, that entire emancipation would _regenerate_ the island of Jamaica.
* * * * * We now submit to the candid examination of the American, especially the Christian public, the results of our inquiries in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica.

The deficiency of the narrative in ability and interest, we are sure is neither the fault of the subject nor of the materials.