It is the legitimate offspring of oppression everywhere--one of the burning curses which it never fails to visit upon its supporters.

It may be seriously doubted, however, whether in Barbadoes this evil will terminate with its cause.
There is there such a superabundance of the laboring population, that for a long time to come, labor must be very cheap, and the habitually indolent will doubtless prefer employing others to work for them, than to work themselves.

If, therefore, we should not see an active spirit of enterprise at once kindling among the Barbadians, _if the light-house should not be build for a quarter of a century to come_, it need not excite our astonishment.
We heard not a little concerning the expected distress of those white families whose property consisted chiefly of slaves.

There were many such families, who have hitherto lived respectably and independently by hiring out their slaves.

After 1840, these will be deprived of all their property, and will have no means of support whatever.