analogy, the difference lies on my side of the question.  I maintain, that emancipation in St. Domingo was attended with far more hazard to persons and property, and with far greater difficulties, than it could possibly be, if attempted in our own islands.  Can we forget that by the decree of Polverel, sanctioned afterwards by the Convention, all the slaves were made free at once, or in a single day?  No notice was given of the event, and of course no preparation could be made for it.  They were released suddenly from all their former obligations and restraints.  They were let loose upon the Whites, their masters, with all the vices of slavery upon them.  What was to have been expected but the dissolution of all civilized society, with the reign of barbarism and terror?  Now all I ask for with respect to the slaves in our own islands is, that they should be emancipated by degrees, or that they should be made to pass through a certain course of discipline, as through a preparatory school, to fit them for the right use of their freedom.  Again, can we forget the unfavourable circumstances, in which the slaves of St. Domingo were placed, for a year or two before their liberation, in another point of view?  The island at this juncture was a prey to political discord, civil war, and foreign invasion, at the same time.  Their masters were politically at variance with each other, as they were white or coloured persons, or republicans or royalists.  They were quarrelling and fighting with each other, and shedding each other’s blood.  The English, who were in possession of the strong maritime posts, were alarming the country by their incursions:  they, the slaves, had been trained up to the same political animosities.  They had been made to take the side of their respective masters, and to pass through scenes of violence and bloodshed.  Now, whenever emancipation is to be proposed in our own colonies, I anticipate neither political parties, nor civil wars, nor foreign invasion, but a time of tranquillity and peace.  Who then will be bold enough to say, after these remarks, that there could be any thing like the danger and difficulties in emancipating the slaves there, which existed when the slaves of St. Domingo were made free?  But some objector may say, after all, “There is one point in which your analogy is deficient.  While Toussaint was in power, the Government of St. Domingo was a black one, and the Blacks would be more willing to submit to the authority of a black (their own) Government, than of a white one.  Hence there Were less disorders after emancipation in St. Domingo, than would have probably occurred, had it been tried in our own islands.”  But to such an objector I should reply, that he knows nothing of the history of St. Domingo.  The Government of that island was French, or white, from the