We are happy to give our meed of praise to the decent and orderly conduct of the sable multitude, and to record that it far excelled the Loco Foco group of bullies and boasters in decency of propriety of demeanor.  A kind of spree or scuffle took place between donkey-driver Quallo and another.  We don’t know if they came to close fisti-cuffs, but it was, we are assured, the most serious affray on the Course.”

The following is the testimony borne in regard to Barbados.

From the Barbados Liberal, Aug. 4th.

FIRST OF AUGUST.

“It gives us great pleasure to state that, so far as our information from the country extends, this day was observed in a manner highly creditable to our brethren.  We never ourselves anticipated any riotings or disorder on the part of the emancipated.  A little exhilaration begetting a shout or two, would not have surprised us; but even this, we are happy to say, made no part of their manifestation of joy.  The day was spent in quiet piety!  In heartfelt, soul overflowing gratitude to their heavenly Father, whose divine agency had raised up friends in their necessity, and brought their great tribulation to an end, they crowded at an early hour to the several churches and chapels, in which their numbers could scarcely find turning room, and then quietly and devoutly poured forth their souls in prayer and praise and thanksgiving!  No revellings, no riotings, no drunkenness, desecrated this day.  We have heard from five parishes, and in none of the five have we heard of a single convivial meeting.  From church and chapel they went to their homes, and eat their first free dinner with their families, putting to shame the intolerant prejudices which had prepared powder and balls, and held the Riot Act in readiness to correct their insubordinate notions of liberty!”

From the New Haven, Ct., Herald.

    "Barbados, Aug. 2, 1838

Yesterday’s sun rose upon eight hundred thousand freemen, on whom and their ancestors the badge of slavery had rested for two hundred years.  It was a solemn, delightful, most memorable day.  I look upon it as a matter of exceeding thankfulness, that I have been permitted to be a witness to it, and to be able to speak from experience and from observation, of the happiness to which that day has given birth.  The day had previously been set apart by proclamation of the Governor, “as a day of devout thanksgiving and praise to Almighty God for the happy termination of slavery.”  The thanksgiving and praise were most truly sincere, heartfelt and general.  It was an emancipation not merely of the slave but of the proprietor.  It was felt as such; openly acknowledged and rejoiced in as such.  Never have I witnessed more apparently unfeigned expressions of satisfaction than were made on that day by the former owners of slaves, at the load of which they had been relieved.

I do not wish to be understood as asserting