"In free countries the master has a choice of labourers, and the labourer has a choice of masters; but in slavery it is always necessary to give despotic power to the master.
This bill leaves it to the magistrate to keep peace between master and slave.

Every time that the slave takes twenty minutes to do that which the master thinks he should do in fifteen, recourse must be had to the magistrate.

Society would day and night be in a constant state of litigation, and all differences and difficulties must be solved by judicial interference." He did not share in Mr.Buxton's apprehension of gross cruelty as a result of the apprenticeship.

"The magistrate would be accountable to the Colonial Office, and the Colonial Office to the House of Commons, in which every lash which was inflicted under magisterial authority would be told and counted.

My apprehension is that the result of continuing for twelve years this dead slavery,--this state of society destitute of any vital principle,--will be that the whole negro population will sink into weak and drawling inefficacy, and will be much less fit for liberty at the end of the period than at the commencement.