They manifested, however, no disposition to rebel, waiting in anxious but quiet hope for their release.

Yet Mr.C.had no doubt, that if parliament had thrown out the emancipation bill, and all measures had ceased for their relief, there would have been a general insurrection .-- While there was hope they remained peaceable, but had hope been destroyed it would have been buried in blood.
There was some dissatisfaction among the blacks with the apprenticeship.
They thought they ought to be entirely free, and that their masters were deceiving them.

They could not at first understand the conditions of the new system--there was some murmuring among them, but they thought it better, however, to wait six years for the boon, than to run the risk of losing it altogether by revolt.
The expenses of the apprenticeship are about the same as during slavery.
But under the free system, Mr.C.has no doubt they will be much less.
He has made a calculation of the expenses of cultivating the estate on which he resides for one year during slavery, and what they will probably be for one year under the free system.

He finds the latter are less by about $3,000.
Real estate has increased in value more than thirty per rent.

There is greater confidence in the security of property.