They do not grumble about their simple food and their coarse clothes, and flaunt about, saying '_freemen ought to live better_.' They do not become dissatisfied with their lowly, cane-thatched huts, and say we ought to have as good houses as massa.
They do not look with an evil eye upon the political privileges of the whites, and say we have the majority, and we'll rule.

It is the common saying with them, when speaking of the inconveniences which they sometimes suffer, "Well, we must be satify and conten." FIFTEENTH PROPOSITION .-- The freed negroes of Antigua have proved that _they are able to take care of themselves_.

It is affirmed by the opponents of emancipation in the United States, that if the slaves were liberated, they could not take care of themselves.

Some of the reasons assigned for entertaining this view are--1st, "The negro is naturally improvident." 2d, "He is constitutionally indolent." 3d, "Being of an inferior race, he is deficient in that shrewdness and management necessary to prevent his being imposed upon, and which are indispensable to enable him to conduct any business with success." 4th, "All these natural defects have been aggravated by slavery.

The slave never provides for himself, but looks to his master for everything he needs.
So likewise he becomes increasingly averse to labor, by being driven to it daily, and flogged for neglecting it.