We are freed from a world of trouble and perplexity."-- _David Cranstoun, Esq._ "I have no hesitation in saying, that if I have a supply of cash, I can take off any crop it may please God to send.

Having already, since emancipation, taken off one fully sixty hogsheads above the average of the last twenty years.

I can speak with confidence."-- _Letter from S.
Bourne, Esq._ Mr.Bourne stated a fact which illustrates the ease with which the negroes are governed by gentle means.

He said that it was a prevailing practice during slavery for the slaves to have a dance soon after they had finished gathering in the crop.

At the completion of his crop in '35, the people made arrangements for having the customary dance.