To shake hands with a white person is a gratification which they highly prize.

Mrs.M.pleasantly remarked, that after service on Sabbath, she was usually wearied out with saying _howdy_, and _shaking hands_.
During the evening we had some conversation with two men who came to 'speak.' They spoke about the blessings of liberty, and their gratitude to God for making them free.

They spoke also, with deep feeling, of the still greater importance of being free from _sin_.

That, they said, was better.

_Heaven was the first best, and freedom was the next best_.
They gave us some account, in the course of the evening, of an aged saint called Grandfather Jacob, who lived on a neighboring estate.