4th.  The weekly and monthly contributions to the churches, to benevolent societies, and to the schools, demonstrate the economy of the negroes; and the great increase of these contributions since August, 1834, proves that emancipation has not made them less economical.

5th.  The increasing attention paid to the cultivation of their private provision grounds is further proof of their foresight.  For some time subsequent to emancipation, as long as the people were in an unsettled state, they partially neglected their grounds.  The reason was, they did not know whether they should remain on the same estate long enough to reap their provisions, should they plant any.  This state of uncertainty very naturally paralyzed all industry and enterprise; and their neglecting the cultivation of their provision grounds, under such circumstances, evinced foresight rather than improvidence.  Since they have become more permanently established on the estates, they are resuming the cultivation of their grounds with renewed vigor.

Said Dr. Daniell—­“There is an increasing attention paid by the negroes to cultivating their private lands, since they have become more permanently settled.”

6th.  The fact that the parents take care of the wages which their children earn, shows their provident disposition.  We were informed that the mothers usually take charge of the money paid to their children, especially their daughters, and this, in order to teach them proper subordination, and to provide against casualties, sickness, and the infirmities of age.

7th.  The fact that the negroes are able to support their aged parents, is further proof.

As it regards the second specification, viz., constitutional indolence, we may refer generally to the evidence on this subject under a former proposition.  We will merely state here two facts.

1st.  Although the negroes are not obliged to work on Saturday, yet they are in the habit of going to estates that are weak-handed, and hiring themselves out on that day.

2d.  It is customary throughout the island to give two hours (from 12 to 2) recess from labor.  We were told that in many cases this time is spent in working on their private provision grounds, or in some active employment by which a pittance may be added to their scanty earnings.

What are the facts respecting the natural inferiority of the negro race, and their incompetency to manage their own affairs?

Said Mr. Armstrong—­“The negroes are exceedingly quick to turn a thought.  They show a great deal of shrewdness in every thing which concerns their own interests.  To a stranger it must be utterly incredible how they can manage to live on such small wages.  They are very exact in keeping their accounts with the manager.”