Why did the government force such an obnoxious bill upon us?
They had in substance done this, they refused to annul the apprenticeship themselves, it is true, but said, we will place them in a situation that will compel them to do it themselves.

He must say that the Government had acted _cowardly and unjustly_, they had in substance deprived them of the further two years' services of their apprentices, agreeably to the compact entered into, upon a pretext that we had not kept faith with them, and now tell us they will give us no compensation.

He hoped the allusion to it in the address would be retained." We beg the patient attention of the reader to still more of these extracts.

The present state of things in Jamaica renders them very important.

It is indispensable to a correct judgment of the results of the experiment to understand in what temper it was entered upon by the parties.