There was, indeed, a great deal of difficulty in restraining them from doing so, but the longer they lived in the country, the more kind and humane they became_.
The negroes _were better off here than many of the people of Great Britain_, and they would have been contented, had it not been for the injudicious _interference of some of the Special Justices_.

Who had ever heard of negroes being starved to death?
Had they not read accounts in the English papers of men destroying their wives, their children, _and afterwards themselves_, because they could not obtain food.

They had been grossly defrauded of their property; and after doing that, it was now sought to destroy their constitutional rights.

He would repeat, they had been grossly defrauded of their property." [Here is the true slaveholder, logic, chivalry and all.] Mr.Frater said, among other things, "He knew that it might be said the bill (Lord Glenelg's) did not go to the extent of freeing the negroes--_that we are about to do ourselves_, but he would ask whether we were not _driven into the difficulty_ by which we are now surrounded! Had we not been brought into this _alarming position_, into this _exigency_, by the conduct of the British Government.

_Why do we not tell the English nation frankly and candidly, that they agreed to give the planter six years' services of their apprentices, as a part of the compensation, and if they desired to do away with it, that we must be paid for it_, otherwise we will NOT ANSWER FOR ANY CHANGE, FOR ANY EVILS WHICH ARE LIKELY TO ENSUE.