large body of the negroes working for him who are
said to be so unmanageable. He, like Dr. Nicholls in Dominica, does not
find them unmanageable at all. They never leave him; they work for him
from year to year as regularly as if they were slaves. They have their
small faults, but he does not magnify them into vices. They are attached
to him with the old-fashioned affection which good labourers always feel
for employers whom they respect, and dismissal is dreaded as the
severest of punishments. In the course of time he thought that they
might become fit for political privileges. To confer such privileges on
them at present would fling Jamaica back into absolute barbarism.

I said I wished that more of his countrymen would come and settle in
Jamaica as he had done and a few others already. American energy would
be like new blood in the veins of the poor island. He answered that many
would probably come if they could be satisfied that there would be no
more political experimenting; but they would not risk their capital if
there was a chance of a black parliament.

If we choose to make Jamaica into a Hayti, we need not look for
Americans down that way.

Let us hope that enthusiasm for constitutions will for once moderate its
ardour. The black race has suffered enough at our hands. They have been
sacrificed to slavery; are they to be sacrificed again to a dream or a
doctrine? There has a new creed risen, while the old creed is failing.
It has its priests and its prophets, its formulas and its articles of
belief.

* * * * *

Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold
the Radical faith.

And the Radical faith is this: all men are equal, and the voice of one
is as the voice of another.

And whereas one man is wise and another foolish, and one is upright and
another crooked, yet in this suffrage none is greater or less than
another. The vote is equal, the dignity co-eternal.

Truth is one and right is one; yet right is right because the majority
so declare it, and justice is justice because the majority so declare
it.

And if the majority affirm one thing to-day, that is right; and if the
majority affirm the opposite to-morrow, that is right.

Because the will of the majority is the ground of right and there is no
other, &c. &c. &c.

This is the Radical faith, which, except every man do keep whole and
undefiled, he is a Tory and an enemy of the State, an