of the home government england said mr a prominent member for more than a century the of into the island as slaves why should she not encourage it now when all the blessings of freedom are secured to them the and english oppose the act on the ground that the have already enough if they will but use and pay them well and they assert that the wish to import this foreign laboring population merely with a view to control the price of labor and thus bring down the once more to the condition of slaves the merchants appear to have but little faith in the project they acknowledge however that it is a forlorn hope and if this does not succeed that nothing else will say they are not able to come into this climate and go at once to severe field labor the of the united states i think will prove but a feeble resource their strong local will be an it may not be very to induce a portion of the idle colored population of our cities to but i suspect they would prove very field africa seemed to be considered the main resource but i was unable to ascertain what was to be their mode of operation on the coast what may be the for obtaining through and their other colonies i do not know but except through these their only resource in africa must be with native chiefs and this method it appears to me cannot but possess some of the features of the slave trade but on this subject i am not well informed my impression is that the plan cannot succeed it is based on a false principle the genuine motives for are a love of power gain or liberty or the strong hope of in some way very materially improving one s condition and in voyage to these motives the project is deficient it is an which for its main result not the good of the but that of the and i am of opinion that none but a body of slave like the assembly could ever have come deliberately to the conclusion that men of sufficient energy to do them good service could be induced to leave their native country with the prospect and indeed under the express agreement of remaining for a term of years in the condition of at the wages of fifty cents per day the governor in the measure but according to his despatch before referred to he considers time the only remedy for the but for this the system of cannot wait should the proposed of duties on sugar take place in england for which the english people are its taken in connection with the regularly increasing supply of sugar and the favorable prospects for east india sugar must be very disastrous to the interests of the the prices of sugar in i found to be i er cent higher than those in boston for the same qualities when i left the latter place these high prices are owing to the duties in england on all foreign the british government thus the interests of her west india or rather those of the landed who make common cause with the corn law against competition and she does this at the expense of the great body of the people and greatly to their discontent by an of the sugar duties the british market would be thrown open to and which from the nature of their soil cheaper mode of building and the abundance of slave labor which they have at command are able to furnish sugar at a much lower price than can furnish it the trade of in this article therefore is now merely kept alive by artificial sugar is the main product of the island and should this of the duties be removed it is believed that the trade of the colony will go down with a crash i suppose the governor is right and that there is no remedy but time but this will be no remedy for the present race of they must suffer � just as in all voyage to those must always � who have been the greatest advantage from the previously existing state of things among disinterested persons who have given the subject their attention i suspect there is little doubt but that the is destined to be the dominant race of this island or rather that in no very long time it will be the only race in amount of native qualities these people are the best of the island the men are fine looking and more muscular than the and the women � the brown and yellow varieties are much more beautiful and than those of purely english origin these physical which they inherit from their black ancestors with the european intellect which they have received from their white contribute to give them a force of character equal at least to that of the english in short appears to be to the negro a sort of process by which the more soft and feeble qualities of his nature are carried off to give place to those of more refinement and force it is still not unusual in the northern states to hear color spoken of as by nature as a barrier to intercourse between the white and black race and to hear represented as an outrage that it is an outrage against northern prejudice there is no doubt i confess myself one of those who do not like to touch the skin of a negro but when any of the laws of nature are outraged in this respect i believe she generally marks down her resentment by some or in the result now the result of between the and is the manifest improvement of ihe negro race this improvement is shown in many ways and particularly in the superior business of the race over the the agency of this 