After emancipation, Mr.Corbett was imprisoned for wronging them.
Mr.Corbett was a respectable planter, of good family and moved in the first circles in the island] TWENTY-FIRST PROPOSITION .-- Emancipation has been followed by a manifest diminution of "_prejudice against color_," and has opened the prospect off its speedy extirpation.
Some thirty years ago, the president of the island, Sir Edward Byam, issued an order forbidding the great bell in the cathedral of St.John's being tolled at the funeral of a colored person; and directing a _smaller_ bell to be hung up in the same belfry, and used on such occasions.

For twenty years this distinction was strictly maintained.
When a white person, however _vile_, was buried, the great bell was tolled; when a colored person, whatever his moral worth, intelligence, or station, was carried to his grave, the little bell was tinkled.

It was not until the arrival of the present excellent Rector, that this "prejudice bell" was silenced.

The Rev.Mr.Cox informed us that prejudice had greatly decreased since emancipation.

It was very common for white and colored gentlemen to be seen walking arm in arm an the streets of St.John's.
"Prejudice against color is fast disappearing.