, 1872-03-09

CNAiAClOoo III SuPpO GIIS Aulo CuSCOhl' fHO
highest In the estimation OF the planter.
But are these physicians and all others
concerned fully aware of the amount OF
evil which is done in such cases Will
not the dread responsibility fall heavily
upon the head of all those who have been
III any measure guilty Of doing I'M Jury to
his fellow creature in this way? And are
these things not so Z
Paragraph 10th provides very iudicious-
Iy for the care of ''young children during
the hours OF work at some proper place,
at the cost of the estate"
This subject might almost be styled o
trite one for the able pen of Judge
Sarauw has so exhausted it on previous
occasions, that more could scarcely be
said to expose the ineficiency of the plan
as practised at present. Visit one of these
"proper places where these children are
cared, and what would YOU see ? An old de-
ctepid woman, who cannot get out of her
own way tor want of legs to carry her, sit
ting in the midst of a pack of squeaIing
brats, into whose mouths, eyes, ears, and
]nostriIs, dozens Of flies. have found
Il resting place, teasting on the food by
which tb II faces are BIS neared, as we'll
as on the hlthincss which surrounds
them on every side. The feeble nurse, on
tha other hand, would feign solicit help in
turn from these little ones were they ab!o
to afford it so thoroughly miserable is her
own condition. At ii o'clock the distress
oi both nurse and chiIdrenis relieved some
what BIZ the mothers return from The field;
aud This relief lasts Until 9 o'clock, when
the misery begins again, and lasts until 5
o'c'ock, This is IL daily experience tor
those helpless ones. Can it be at all won
dered at Tint SO many of them fall victims
to this horrid neglect!
Paragraph 2lst: This passage Of the
"Labour Act" supports by its enactment
one u the standing relics of sIavery-tho
driver. This slave official was always held
in adherence bv the slave because he
was the terror Of his life in his house, in
the field at morn, at noon, at night and
Whenever the rigi Shareholder wished to
torture his slave, he committed him to the
notice OF the driver. This petty tyrant,
whose softest persuasions to the hampered
slave was the application Of the most de-
mouiacal abuse, backed by the british use
Of his official insignia-the cartwhip-
knew how to ingratiate himself into the
good will of the master by ill-using the
slave and too often has this semi-barba-
rian employed the power invested in him,
for purposes the most depraved and debas-
ed. That such al Office should have been
retained in nearly all its potency under q
system of freedom, is an idea most horribly
rcpul8iYe to a civilized mind.
The driver was one of the first relics of
slavery which was abolished when Eman-
cipation was proclaimed in some of the
British Colonies, No driver in the field
was the cry everywhere but work done
was usually inspected the same day or the
following, by the overseer and a ranger
To keep order on the estates was not in
the power of the driver and the very
name had to be obliterated. The govern
ment empowered two, three, or four men
on each estate, who were styled "Rural
Constables = and these acted in that ca
pacity. They were empowered to act as
policemen on the spot; to quell disorders
aud to arrest oil disagreeable characters,
trespassers and the like and bring them to