[5] Ce medecin est aussi celebre en Amerique, par de bons ecrits politiques.  C’est un apotre infatigable de la liberte.

[6] Il n’etoit pas alors president des Etats-Unis.  J’anticipe ici sur plusieurs conversations que j’ai eues avec ce grand homme, et dont je parlerai par la suite.

[7] A l’assemblee de la societe de New-Yorck, du 9 novembre 1787, il a ete arrete qu’on donneroit une medaille d’or pour le meilleur discours qui seroit prononce a l’ouverture du college de New-Yorck sur l’injustice et la cruaute de la traite des negres, et sur les funestes effets de l’esclavage.

SLAVERY AS SEEN BY HENRY WANSEY

“In this state (He was then at Worcester) the Negroes are free and happy, are electors, but not elected to offices of state; their education, however, is the same as the whites. ...  No negro child is suffered to be endentured beyond twenty-four years of age.

“We observe a school by the road-side in almost every parish, and out of it run negro boys and girls as well as white children, without any distinction. ...  A road branched off here to our right hand, leading to Albany about 60 miles distant.  I now observe six or eight negroes working together in a field, well dressed as other people.  Notwithstanding, they are here free, and admitted to equal privileges with the white people, yet they love to associate with each other.  It is observed that they are naturally lazier, and will not work so hard as a white servant.—­Perhaps, the remembrance of former compulsive service, may make them place a luxury in idleness.  Nor do they yet seem to feel their importance in society; this is a portion of inheritance reserved to the next generation of them. ...

  “Came on to Hartford....

Here I staid two days that I might have time to inspect the woolen manufactory of this place, and attend the debates of the House of Representatives of this state....  Two very interesting subjects were in debate:—­a bill brought in to repeal a law, passed in October last to order ’That the money arising from the sale of their lands, between the Ohio and Lake Erie, should be appropriated to increase the salaries of the ministers of the gospel and the masters of schools;’ and another bill (for its second reading) ’To provide for those poor and sick negroes, who having been freed from slavery might be unprovided for; and that till the master was exculpated, by receiving a certificate from the state, that negro was discharged in perfect health, it should be incumbent on the master to continue to take care of him during sickness, or, at least, pay the expenses of his cure.’  I was much pleased to see a legislature extend its humanity and care so far.

After our breakfast, which was not a very good one, we set off for Elizabeth Town, near which, on the right, is Governor Livingstone’s handsome house.  This is six miles from Newark....