We were told of an "Honorable" gentleman, who had his English wife and two concubines, a colored and a black one.

The governor himself stated as an apology for the prevalence of licentiousness among the slaves, that the example was set them constantly by their masters, and it was not to be wondered at if they copied after their superiors.

But it is now plain that concubinage among the whites is nearly at an end.

An unguarded statement of a public man revealed the conviction which exists among his class that concubinage must soon cease.

He said that the present race of colored people could not be received into the society of the whites, _because of illegitimacy_; but the next generation would be fit associates for the whites, _because they would be chiefly born in wedlock_.
The uniform testimony respecting _intemperance_ was, that it _never had been one of the vices of the negroes_.