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Show 120 JAMAICA. fell below £16. In apprenticeship it cost from £10. 13. 4, to £12. Now, it never exceeds £5. 6. 8. I myself have done it this year for £5; that is the general price all through the district. In 1833, I hired servants at from £16 to £25 per annum. In 1838, 1839, and since, I have been able to obtain the same description of servants, vastly improved in all their qualifications, for from £8 to £,10 per annum." 'l'hese are pound, shilling, and pence, calculations; but they develop mighty principles-they detect the springs of human actionthey prove the vast superiority of moral inducement, to physical force, in the production of the useful efforts of mankind. It is the perfect settlement of the old controversy between wages and the whip! "I know the case of a property," observes Dr. Stewart again, "on which there were one hundred and twenty-five slaves-the expense amounting (at £5 per annum, for the maintenance of each slave) to £,625. 'l'he labor account for the first year of freedom, deducting rents, was only about £220, leaving a balance in favor of freedom, of £400. More improvement had been made on the property, than for many years past, with a prospect of an increasing extent of cultivation. On a second property, the slave and apprenticeship expenses averaged £2400; the labor account, for the first year of freedom, was less than £850. On a third estate, the year's expense, under slavery, was £1480; under apprenticeship, £1050; under freedom, £6.37. On a fourth, the reduction is from £ll00 to £770." Allowing a little time for the calming of apprehensions, and the development of truth, such results must infallibly lind their way into the value of landed property. '!'hat they have already done so, in Jamaica, to a considerable extent, is undeniable. A person in the parish of Manchester, who never held slaves, availing himself of the general alarm, bought a property, at the date of full freedom, for £1000 currency. 'l'he free laborers work the better for him, because he never was a slaveholder. He cleared the whole purchase money, besides his expenses, the first year. He would, of course, make a misera- JAMAICA. bl b . 121 e argam, were he now to sell the r . amount, i. c. for £5,000. P opcrty for live tunes the There can be no better tcstimon in . . . . than that of A B II Y Jamruca, Oil thts subject . . e assured me tl t I d d ' island now, without the I· . '" . an e property in that s •tVes, IS worth tts full C. eluding the slaves durin th t. . orrner value, in~ ' g e 11nes of dep . · f . cd the act of cmancipati l I rcs5ton, w uch preced-d . on. t las found tts botto I . an IS still gradually risino- " I b . . m, las nsen, D .,. eltcvc m m · says r. Stewart " th 'll p . ·t . . Y conscience," ' (_ lOpCi y m Jmn·Hc::~ w'tl I is as valuable as it former! . . ' '' ' lOUt t 1e slaves, y w.tS. With them I b r . would be doubled by Sl.ll I . . . e teve tis value ) cere y turmno- n r slavery, to the honest free y " :way rom all relics of T . - WOl dng of a tree system" hn·d.month (March) 21 st If . . · the "second breakfast" we .. 1 dtef' '' comfortable meal, called ' patte rom our intclr f. at-- Penn, and again assailed the ron . tgent nends one spot, we were oblig-ed to . . II gh htlly roads. At . use " our force m p I . carriages up a hill as steep ..t s tl1 e . f us Hng our 1 oo of a ho b stant succession of fine scene. . . . d use ; ut llw con- . s, Jepat all our tod J tl mg, we reached the neat little viii· f M ·. 11 1e evenof the parish of l\1ancftester· h.·tgi'CO andevtllc, .thc capital ' w IC ' IS at th I . I feet above the level of the sea. There it e 1etg It of 2,500 woods and P'tStures we found . ' lthe mtclst of green c ' an 11111 winch for . r· ,are and accommodation ld d '. ' com ortable . ' ' wou o crecltt to Eng!· d A rtca, and were ghd to t·tl . .m or me- ' · ' <e up onr abode 111 it fo ll r II clay- the first of the week 0 . 1 ' r w lO owing · urma t lC conrsc of o · we had received help and inC. r " . . ur excurswn, Methodists, the Moravians nndo mutton u·om the Baptists, U1e the Church of Eno-lund 'At M~hed "'.'nt~ters and members of " · . ..rn cvtlte we lou d 1 amono- the Jndepend t C' . ' n oursc vcs . . o en s or ongregatJOnn.lists A mtsstonary st.ution has b f . · · · n excellent M. . . ecn ormed there, under the Lo d cl tSSJO1n ary Soctety' a I' a rg c. c.h ape I ' effective school &c Inn tlo .n lape we held onr public mectino- f, . ' . liS evcninO" Gre't \V tl ~s or worship, morning and and coor·d i·tlity "o r ther e te n11mbe rs, 1 -1 Ull( Stl I grenter, the love l c negroes who attended on th - . A prosperous well-b I c\ e occasiOn. ' clave peasantry, they certainly are- 11 |