The colored people have themselves contributed to prolong this feeling, _by keeping aloof from the society of the whites_."-- _James Howell, of T.Jarvis's_.
How utterly at variance is this with the commonly received opinion, that the colored people are disposed to _thrust_ themselves into the society of the whites! "_Prejudice against color_ exists in this community only to a limited extent, and that chiefly among those who could never bring themselves to believe that emancipation would really take place.

Policy dictates to them the propriety of confining any expression of their feelings to those of the same opinions.

Nothing is shown of this prejudice in their intercourse with the colored class--it is '_kept behind the scenes_.'"-- _Ralph Higginbotham, U.S.Consul._ Mr.H.was not the only individual standing in "high places" who insinuated that the whites that still entertained prejudice were ashamed of it.

His excellency the Governor intimated as much, by his repeated assurances for himself and his compeers of the first circles, that there was no such feeling in the island as prejudice against _color_.

The reasons for excluding the colored people from their society, he said, were wholly different from that.