N.Nugent_.
It is a little remarkable that while Americans fear that the negroes, if emancipated, could not take care of themselves, the West Indians fear lest they _should_ take care of themselves; hence they discourage them from buying lands, from learning trades, and from all employments which might render them independent of sugar cultivation.
SIXTEENTH PROPOSITION .-- Emancipation has operated at once to elevate and improve the negroes.

It introduced them into the midst of all relations, human and divine.

It was the first formal acknowledgment that they were MEN--personally interested in the operations of law, and the requirements of God.

It laid the corner-stone in the fabric of their moral and intellectual improvement.
"The negroes have a growing self-respect and regard for character.

This was a feeling which was scarcely known by them during slavery."-- _Mr.
J.Howell_.
"The negroes pay a great deal more attention to their personal appearance, than they were accustomed to while slaves.