He informed us that the number of complaints brought before him had much diminished since 1834, and he had no hesitation in saying, that crime had decreased throughout the island generally more than one third.
During one of our excursions into the country, we witnessed another instance of the amicability with which the different colors associated in the civil affairs of the island.

It was a meeting of one of the parish vestries, a kind of local legislature, which possesses considerable power over its own territory.

There were fifteen members present, and nearly as many different shades of complexion.

There was the planter of aristocratic blood, and at his side was a deep mulatto, born in the same parish a slave.

There was the quadroon, and the unmitigated hue and unmodified features of the negro.