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into a prophet of remote futurity , to the ensuring existence , of t )\ Q $ powers themselves . The concluding admonition is ia tha calm tQne qf a beatified spirit s and the whole discoursed excellently fitted to fulfil the author ' s desire , * to accompany and aid the Christian progress' of his hearers * in the exercise of a free mind , the practice of a pure morality , and the sentiments of a lofty devotion .
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Letter to the Lord Glenelg , Secretary of State for the Cofoniet , cbn * taining a Report ) from personal Observat ion * on the Worfktilg of / He New System in tte British West India Colonies , By John tones . London : Longman and Co ,, Paternoster Row . 183 b . This pamphlet will be read with interest by all who appreciate the importance of the experiment which is now being tried in the West Indies . Not only do the future prospects of the British colonies depend on the result of that experiment , but the oopdition of the whole negro race will
be deeply affected by it , since it cannot be denied that its success would give a fatal blow to slavery all OTer the world . Mr . Innes has performed his task of observation with precision a . nd intelligence , and the remedies he proposes to avert failure are distinguished by an appearance of good judgment and good feeling . He began his inspection in December , 1884 , and was furnished by Mr . Spring Rice , then Secretary of State
for . the Colonies , with letters to all the governors . He found the aspect of affairs widely different in the different colonies ; plainly showing that there is no obstacle in the negro constitution to his working as a free labourer , but that his activity or indolence , when he has the liberty pf choice , will be determined by the strength of motive leading tb the one or the other . Thus in Guiana , where he is utterly uncivilized and uneducated , with few wants beyond a bare animal subsistence , and where
there is no competition for labour , he will not work , it is clear , when his apprenticeshi p is over , so as to kee p up the plantations . Why should he ? one day ' s labour in the week will supply him with all he wants . In Barbadoes , pn the other hand , where he is educated to a considerable
extent , and has acquired a taste for comfort , and a love for his cottage and provision ground , and where a full population supplies an abundant stock of labour , Mr . Innes considers that the planters have gained by the change to apprenticeship from slavery , and will gain still more by complete freedom . In Antigua the proof is already made out . There the masters did not take advantage of the apprenticeship , but in due day gave freedom to 30 , 000 slaves . Education and moral and religious
instruction are universal . The largest Moravian mission in the world is settled there , and it appears that the clergymen of the Esta ) aljj | h < ed Church are equally zealous with them in the task of negro itfstlRMtfunv With eoncte difficulties at the outset , the prospect * of the island appemr to be favourable , and the very gratifying intelligence was Obtained' m > m 3 vend planters , that the expenses of estates udder the pit ^ l IJlUrm freedom are nearly the same as they we re under the , < Hflfc ^ sfcfa . pf slavery . QUkpaIq * tt * account is most , p loomy . There It eppeirs there is not the slightest chance of maintaining the rag «* toltataffoMt
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 755, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/63/
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