The planters very frequently, indeed, _in the early stage of freedom_, used their power as employers to the annoyance and injury of their laborers.

For the slightest misconduct, and sometimes without any reason whatever, the poor negroes were dragged before the magistrates, (planters or their friends,) and mulcted in their wages, fined otherwise, and committed to jail or the house of correction.

And yet those harassed people remained patient, orderly and submissive.

_Their treatment now is much improved.

The planters have happily discovered, that as long as they kept the cultivators of their lands in agitations and sufferings, their own interests were sacrificed._" TENTH PROPOSITION .-- The negroes are _more trust-worthy, and take a deeper interest in their employers' affairs_, since emancipation.
"My laborers manifest an increasing attachment to the estate.