His apprentices have more interest in the affairs of the estate, and he puts more confidence in them than he ever did before.
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He declares that the working of the apprenticeship, as also that of entire freedom, depends entirely on the _planters_.

If they act with common humanity and reason, there is no fear but that the apprentices will be peaceable.
Mr.Thomas is attorney for fifteen estates, on which there are upwards of two thousand five hundred apprentices.

We were informed that he had been distinguished as a _severe disciplinarian_ under the old reign, or in plain terms, had been a _cruel man and a hard driver_; but he was one of those who, since emancipation, have turned about and conformed their mode of treatment to the new system.

In reply to our inquiry how the present system was working, he said, "infinitely better (such was his language) than slavery.