He does not think that the apprenticeship will be a means of preparing the negroes for freedom, nor does he believe that they _need_ any preparation.

He should have apprehended no danger, had emancipation taken place in 1834.
At nine o'clock we sat down to breakfast.

Our places were assigned at opposite sides of the table, between Col.

B.and Mr.C.To an American eye, we presented a singular spectacle.

A wealthy planter, a member of the legislative council, sitting at the breakfast table with a colored man, whose mother was a negress of the most unmitigated hue, and who himself showed a head of hair as curly as his mother's! But this colored guest was treated with all that courtesy and attention to which his intelligence, worth and accomplished manners so justly entitle him.
About noon, we left Edgecome, and drove two miles farther, to Horton--an estate owned by Foster Clarke, Esq., an attorney for twenty-two estates, who is now temporarily residing in England.