If required, I could give you a host of similar cases, with the names of the parties.  But it seems unnecessary.  The mere impulse given to the value of property in this island by emancipation, is a thing as notorious here, as the fact of emancipation.

But, are not crimes more frequent than before?  I have now before me a Barbados newspaper, printed two weeks since, in which the fact is stated, that in all the county prisons, among a population of 80,000, only two prisoners were confined for any cause whatever!

“But,” says a believer in the necessity of Colonization, “how will you get rid of the negroes?” I answer by adverting to the spectacle which is now witnessed in all the Islands of the former proprietors of slaves, now employers of free laborers, using every endeavor to prevent emigration.  Trinidad, Demerara, and Berbice, want laborers.  The former has passed a law to pay the passage money of any laborer who comes to the Island, leaving him free to choose him employment.  Demerara and Berbize have sent Emigration agents to this and other islands, to induce the laborers to join those colonies, offering high wages, good treatment, &c.  On the other hand, Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent, and all the old and populous islands, individually and collectively, by legislative resolves, legal enactments, &c. &c.—­loudly protest that they have not a man to spare!  What is still better, the old island proprietors are on every hand building new houses for the peasantry, and with great forethought adding to their comfort; knowing that they will thereby secure their contentment on their native soil.  As a pleasing instance of the good understanding which now exists between proprietors and laborers, I will mention, that great numbers of the former were in town on the 24th, buying up pork, hams, rice, &c. as presents for their people on the ensuing Christmas; a day which has this year passed by amid scenes of quiet Sabbath devotions, a striking contrast to the tumult and drunkenness of former times.  I cannot close this subject, without beating my testimony to the correctness of the statements made by our countrymen, Thome and Kimball.  They were highly esteemed here by all classes, and had free access to every source of valuable information.  If they have not done justice to the subject of their book, it is because the manifold blessings of a deliverance from slavery are beyond the powers of language to represent.  When I attempt, as I have done in this letter, to enumerate a few of the, I know not where to begin, or where to end.  One must see, in order to know and feel how unspeakable a boon these islands have received,—­a boon, which is by no means confined to the emancipated slaves; but, like the dew and rains of heaven, it fell upon all the inhabitants of the land, bond and free, rich and poor, together.