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Show 136 JAMAICA. The ansmg of this spirit of love and zeal, on behalf of the land of their forefathers, has been one of the blessed accompaniments of their freedom. In the afternoon we again mot, in the 'Vesleyan Meeting House, a vast assembly of persons of all ranks and classes ; and after once more pressing upon their attention, those fundamental principles, in the maintenance of which the true church of Christ, of every name, country, and color, is one body, we took a last solenm leave of Jamaica and her inhabitants. The next morning, we parted from our English Friends who continue, for the present, on the island ; went on board the ship Whitmore; and as soon as wind and tides permitted, set sail for Havana. I am, &c., &c., LETTER XII. '!'HE CONTRAST. Providence, R . L, Sixth-month (June) 29tlt, 1840. MY DBAR FRIEND, My narrative respecting the British West India islands, being llO\V brought to a close, I will take the liberty of concentrating and recapitulating the principal points of the subject, in a few distinct propositions. L Tlte emancipated negroes are working 1oell on tile estates of tltei1· old masters. The evidence of this fact contained in the foregoing letters, is, I hope, clear and ample. Thou wilt be pleased to recal the case of Tortola-especially the evidence of President Isaacs, who has fifteen hundred free laborers under his care ; of St. Christopher's-that scene of industry and prosperity; of Nevis and Montserrat, of which the official accounts are so cheering and satisfactory-of Antigua, where, after the trial of freedom for six years, the produce of sugar is largely increased, many estates, thrown up in slavery, are again under cultivation, and the landed property, once sink· ing under its burdens, is already delivered from its mortgagesof Dominica, where notwithstanding the Jack of moral culture, and the superabundance of fertile wild land, tho peasantry are working as peaceably and diligently, on their old locations, as in Antigua itself. Nor does Jamaica, when duly inspected and fairly estimated, furnish any exception to the general result. We find that, in that island, wherever the negroes are fairly, kindly, and wisely treated, there they are working well on the properties of their old masters ; and that the existing instances of a contrary description, must be ascribed to causes which class under slavery, and not under freedom. Let it not however 12• |