[The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society]@TWC D-Link bookThe Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 CHAPTER III 154/620
CATHERINE .-- The conduct of the people in this district generally, is such as to entitle them to the highest commendation. Well knowing the inconvenience to which their masters' customers would be otherwise reduced from a want of food for their horses and cattle, they voluntarily went out to work on the second day, and in some instances on the following, and supplied the usual demand of the market, presenting their labor thus voluntarily given as a free-will offering to their employers. Comment on such conduct world be superfluous. The late apprentices of Jamaica have hitherto acquired honors, Above all Greek, Above all Roman fame. So far as they are concerned, the highest expectations of their friends have been more than realized.
Let the higher classes universally but exhibit the same dispositions and conduct, and the peace and prosperity of Jamaica are for ever secured. Morning Journal of August 4. SAINT THOMAS IN THE EAST. Up to the moment when the post left Morant Bay, the utmost tranquillity prevailed.
In fact, from the quiet of the day and the circumstance of droves of well-dressed persons going to and from the Church and Chapels, I was occasionally deluded, says a correspondent, into the belief of the day being Sunday.
The parish Church was crowded, and the Rector delivered a very able and appropriate address.
The Methodist and Independent Chapels were also filled.
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