We did not hear a word that implied an opposite sentiment.
It is true, much was said about the emigration to Demerara, but the facts in this case only serve to confirm the testimony already quoted.
In the first place, nothing but the inducement of very high wages[A] could influence any to go, and in the next place, after they got there they sighed to return, (but were not permitted,) and sent back word to their relatives and friends not to leave Antigua.
[Footnote A: From fifty cents to a dollar per day.] Facts clearly prove, that the negroes, instead of being indifferent to local attachments, are peculiarly alive to them.

That nothing short of cruelty can drive them from their homes--that they will endure even that, as long as it can be borne, rather than leave; and that as soon as the instrument of cruelty is removed, they will hasten back to their "_bornin' ground._" THIRTEENTH PROPOSITION.--"The gift of unrestricted freedom, though so suddenly bestowed, has not made the negroes more insolent than they were while slaves, but has rendered them _less so_."-- _Dr.Daniell_.
Said James Howell, Esq.--"A short time after emancipation, the negroes showed some disposition to assume airs and affect a degree of independence; but this soon disappeared, and they are now respectful and civil.

There has been a mutual improvement in this particular.

The planters treat the laborers more like fellow men, and this leads the latter to be respectful in their turn." R.B.Eldridge, Esq., asked us if we had not observed the civility of the lower classes as we passed them on the streets, both in town and in the country.

He said it was their uniform custom to bow or touch their hat when they passed a white person.