The bulk of the slaves, because they were negroes, because they were costly, and because they were in personal touch, were pupils and working wards, while the planters were teachers and guardians as well as masters and owners.

The planters have become the decided enemies of slavery.

It was not an ideal answer, and historians have scolded the departed planters vigorously for doing the sum in that way, yet the planters were victims of circumstances.

The planter is proprietor of an estate, and has eighty apprentices.

CHAPTER XI "The planters of New England were Englishmen, not exempt from English prejudices in favor of English institutions, laws and usages ...

The best planter within his acquaintance, he said, was Major Twiggs, on the opposite bank of the Savannah, who ran thirty-four plows with but fourteen hoes.

This planter was a near relative of the celebrated Patrick Henry.

Every petty planter, who avails himself of the service of slaves, is an arbitrary monarch, or rather a lawless Bashaw in his own territories, notwithstanding that the imaginary freedom of the province wherein he resides, may seem to forbid the observation.

He said he would be happy to aid us in any waybut added, that in all details of a practical kind, and in all matters of fact, the planters were the best witnesses, for they were the conductors of the present system.

He believed on the other hand, that the planters would be great gainers by those wholesome regulations, which they would be obliged to make, if the Slave Trade were abolished.

A planter was one day dining with the owner of this slave, and in the course of conversation observed, that all profession of religion among slaves was mere hypocrisy.

A tea planter in India is a heavy swell.

Generally speaking, the planters that I saw were not violent Secessionists, though none of them were unconditional Union men.

There were some very honorable men among those who were indignant at this measure; and, among us, likewise, the planters who determined to combat all modification of the negro system, were good men.

Our planters are already becoming farmers.

" A planter, wherever he settles, is not only a freeman, but a legislator: "ubi imperator, ibi Roma."

Throughout the West Indies the planter is usually not merely a sugar-grower, but a sugar-maker also.

The merchants were plantation factors; the lawyers and doctors had country patrons; the wealthiest planters were town residents from time to time; and many prospering townsmen looked toward plantation retirement, carrying as it did in some degree the badge of gentility, as the crown of their careers.

I did learn quite by accident that the gay gallant was a wealthy Spaniard, supposedly of high birth, by name Sanchez, and at one time in the naval service, and likewise ascertained that the rotund planter, so evidently in the party, was a certain Roger Fairfax, of Saint Mary's in Maryland, homeward bound after a successful sale of his tobacco crop in London.

If a great planter and particularly if situated upon navigable water, this last was the course he was apt to follow.

In a district like Chumparun where nearly every planter was an ardent sportsman, a good rider, and spent nearly half his time on horseback, pig-sticking was a favourite pastime.