It was very interesting to meet all the neighbouring Europeansmostly planters and their wives.

The quintal of indigo of the first class costs the planter from $35 to $40 at most; and in the market of Manila it has been sold from $60 to $130, according to the quality and the greater or lesser demand for the article at the season.

Half, nay nine-tenths, of the stories against planters, are got up by the money-lenders, the petty Zemindars, and wealthy villagers, who find the planter competing with them for land and labour, and raising the price of both.

Hence it was expected that a better system of treatment would follow, from the law which closed the African market, and warned every planter that his stock must be spared by better treatment, and kept up by breeding, since it no longer could be, as it hitherto had been, maintained by new supplies.

In Miss., I know some planters who allowed their hands three and a half pounds of meat per week, when it was cheap.

" "For rural simplicity he's perfection," whispered Peabody to Stevens as they left the planter.

The radical difference of the industrial methods in sugar from those in the other staples, however, together with the predominance of the French language, the Catholic religion and a Creole social régime in the district most favorable for sugar, made Anglo-Americans chary of the enterprise; and the revival of cotton prices after 1815 strengthened the tendency of migrating planters to stay within the cotton latitudes.

And he goes on to advise the planters, for the sake of their own interest, to behave like good men, good masters, and good Christians, and to impose less labour upon their slaves, and to give them recreation on some of the grand festivals, and to instruct them in religion, as certain preventives of their decrease.

And the work that it has begun it will finish; it will force the planters to translate the word SLAVERY, to consider one by one the abominable practices which constitute it.

If we were to believe the planters themselves, who are of the opposition, we should conclude that they were far from being in favor of slaverythat they were "as much opposed to slavery, as any one can be[A]."

Mr. T. stated two facts respecting this enlightened planter, which amply account for the good conduct of his apprentices.

That the demand for labor must increase in proportion to the increase of capital, is one of the demonstrations of political economists; and I confess, that for the removal of slavery from Virginia, I look to the efficacy of that principle; together with the circumstance that our southern brethren are constrained to continue planters, by their position, soil and climate.

They dragged this respectable planter from the bosom of his family, and mutilated him in the most brutal mannermaiming him most inhumanly, besides cutting off his nose and ears and scarifying his body to the very ribs!

The prevailing impression that the negroes would not work well after the abolition of slavery, led many planters to throw a part of their land out of cultivation, in 1834.

It was the duty of the House to protect the planters, whose lives had been, and were then, exposed to imminent, dangers, and whose property had undergone an unmerited, depreciation.

"There was, some time since, brought to trial in this town a planter residing about fifteen miles distant, for whipping his slave to death.

He grew so much interested in telling me about his lodges that I think (I think) he forgot momentarily that he was selling corn-planters, which was certainly to his credit.

A splendid imposition!which cheats the planter of his gains, cheats the British nation of its money, and robs the world of what else might have been a glorious example of immediate and entire emancipation.

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.

'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.

Its far reaching waterways, furthermore, made freighting easy and permitted the planters to devote themselves the more fully to their staple.

" "Don't you try to make no fool of me, old man," cried the planter.

It was dusk when he reached Robert's plantation, and he took the planter aside and asked: "Do you not know me?" "No." "Lawrence," the stranger whispered.

Emancipation is deemed an incalculable blessing, because it released the planters from an endless complication of responsibilities, perplexities, temptations and anxieties, and because it emancipated them from the bondage of the whip. 9th.

They testify positivelyand not only planters, but all other classes of men likewisethat the slaves of Barbadoes were fit for entire freedom in 1834, and that they might have been emancipated then with perfect safety.