The patience and endurance of the sufferers under such circumstances are unexampled, except by the conduct of the slaves, who, though still more wronged, were, if possible, still more patient.
We regret to add, that until lately, the colored people of Barbadoes hate been far in the background in the cause of abolition, and even now, the majority of them are either indifferent, or actually hostile to emancipation.

They have no fellow feeling with the slave.

In fact; they have had prejudices against the negroes no less bitter than those which the whites have exercised toward them.

There are many honorable exceptions to this, as has already been shown; but such, we are assured, is the general fact.[A] [Footnote A: We are here reminded, by the force of contrast, of the noble spirit manifested by the free colored people of our own country.
As early as 1817, a numerous body of them in Philadelphia, with the venerable James Forten at their head, pledged themselves to the cause of the slave in the following sublime sentiment, which deserves to be engraver to their glory on the granite of our "everlasting hills"-- "Resolved, That we never will separate ourselves voluntarily from the slave population in this country; they are our brethren by the ties of consanguinity, of suffering, and of wrong; and we feel that there is more virtue in suffering privations with them, than enjoying _fancied_ advantages for a season." We believe that this resolution embodies the feelings and determinations of the free colored people generally in the free states.].