That they buy small parcels of land to cultivate, is proof of economy and foresight.

The planters have to resort to every means in their power to induce their laborers not to purchase land.
3d.

The Friendly Societies are an evidence of the same thing.

How can we account for the number of these societies, and for the large sums of money annually contributed in them?
And how is it that these societies have trebled, both in members and means since emancipation, if it be true that the negroes are thus improvident, and that freedom brings starvation?
4th.

The weekly and monthly contributions to the churches, to benevolent societies, and to the schools, demonstrate the economy of the negroes; and the _great increase_ of these contributions since August, 1834, proves that emancipation has not made them less economical.
5th.