He found the whole sum secure.

The negro, he said, might have taken the money, and he would never have suspected him, but would have concluded that it had been, in common with other larger sums, seized upon by the insurgents.

Colonel A.
said that it was impossible for him to mistrust the negroes as a body.
He spoke in terms of praise also of the _conjugal attachment_ of the negroes.

His son, a merchant, stated a fact on this subject.

The wife of a negro man whom he knew, became afflicted with that loathsome disease, the leprosy.