The hospitality of planters and missionaries, of which we have recorded so many instances in a previous part of this work, gave us free access to their houses in every part of the island.

In many cases we were constrained to spend the night with them, and thus enjoyed, in the intimacies of the domestic circle, and in the unguarded moments of social intercourse, every opportunity of detecting any lurking fears of violence, if such there had been; but we saw no evidence of it, either in the arrangements of the houses or in the conduct of the inmates[A].
[Footnote A: In addition to the evidence derived from Antigua, we would mention the following fact: A planter, who is also an attorney, informed us that on the neighboring little island of Barbuda, (which is leased from the English government by Sir Christopher Coddrington,) there are five hundred negroes and only _three white men_.

The negroes are entirely free, yet the whites continue to live among them without any fear of having their throats cut.

The island is cultivated in sugar .-- Barbuda is under the government of Antigua, and accordingly the act of entire emancipation extended to that island.] FIFTH PROPOSITION .-- There has been no fear of house breaking, highway robberies, and like misdemeanors, since emancipation.

Statements, similar to those adduced under the last head, from planters, and other gentlemen, might be introduced here; but as this proposition is so intimately involved in the foregoing, separate proof is not necessary.
The same causes which excite apprehensions of insurrection, produce fears of robberies and other acts of violence; so also the same state of society which establishes security of person, insures the safety of property.