Jamaica was owned and managed by a class of proprietors who resembled in many ways some of the planters of the States of America farthest southof the States toward the mouth of the Mississippi.

There was a planter in Henricus who had treated me like dirt, and some names from Essex county that I did not expect.

Their sojourn with us, or farther south, is merely an exile by stress of climate, like the flitting of the Southern planters from the rice-fields to the mountains in summer, or the pleasure tour or watering-place visit customary with the citizens of Boston and New York.

There can be no excuse, then, for the English planters for not altering their system, and this immediately.

They were however seized, and forcibly conveyed, under cover of the night, to ships then lying in the Thames, to be retransported to the colonies, and to be delivered again to the planters as merchantable goods.

They need not send to the West Indies to know the opinions of the planters on the subject.

One day he announced that he had been offered a post as steward to a big planter at Henricus, and when I warmly bade him accept it, he smiled wanly, and said he had done so a week agone.

'Owing to my connection with the owner of the estate, I naturally had some authority with the people; and I did my best to preserve order amongst them, particularly in the boiling-house, where there used to be a good deal of petty theft, especially at night; for we had not then the powerful machinery which enables the planter to commence his grinding late and finish it early.

There on the wharf would be the planter with his wife and family, and every servant about the place.

I will now try the right of the southern planter by the claims of Hebrew masters over their heathen slaves.

Nevertheless, the Georgia planters near the frontier were not long in learning that the general enlightenment of the Negroes would endanger the institution of slavery.

Mr. H. has been in Antigua for thirty-six years, and has been a practical planter during the whole of that time.

I lived with him some time, and acquainted myself, by that means, with the manner of planting and making of sugar: and seeing how well the planters lived, and how they got rich suddenly, I resolved, if I could get a licence to settle there, I would turn planter among them: endeavouring, in the mean time, to find out some way to get my money, which I had left in London, remitted to me.

He warned the planters against the danger of fresh importations, and invited their concurrence in the measure.

There was an indigo-planter before the Committee to-day.

There may be mischief afoot which would rouse every sleepy planter out of bed, and turn the Tidewater into an armed camp.

We had there a good opportunity to observe the hostile feelings of the planters towards this faithful officer"faithful among the faithless," (though we are glad that we cannot quite add, "only he.")

He lived in the White House more like a Virginian planter than a great public functionary, wearing plain clothes, and receiving foreign ministers without the usual formalities, much to their chagrin.

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.

The rigidity of paternalism, well meant though it had been, was a lesson against future submission to outward control in any form; and their failure as a peasantry in competition with planters across the river persuaded the Georgians and their neighbors that slave labor was essential for prosperity.

r. Profit of the planters after deduction of the wages 3. 9 r. or 8. 25

which might throw the planters back a whole century in their profits, in their cultivation, and in their progress towards the emancipation of their slaves?

At least one public-spirited planter advocated in 1801 the heroic measure of closing the slave trade in order to raise the price of labor and coerce the planters into saving it both by improving their apparatus and by diminishing the death rate.

While the planters whose estates fronted directly on the James received their importations upon wharves before their doors and delivered their tobacco in the same convenient manner, the planters up the creeks were at more trouble in the matter.

This rumor however was soon dispelled on learning that Bacon was at Curles rallying the planters about him.