affection of the governing class has also been greater, and Freedom
has been left to take care of herself.[11] But though thwarted and
frowned upon, she is at the last justified of her children. Mr. Sewell
has most happily hit the whole truth in a few lines: 'The crop' (of
freedom), he says, 'appears in patches, even as it was sown, forcing
itself here and there through the ruins of the fabric which disfigures
still the political complexion of the island, and sorely cramps the
energies of its people.' Governor Darling's words show how rapidly the
crop, thus negligently sown, is forcing itself into prosperous and
prevailing growth.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: Negro of West Indian birth. Creole, used alone, signifies a
West Indian white.]

[Footnote 2: However, I should say that there are portions of Western
Africa where trustworthy accounts give to the negroes a widely different
and far more favorable character.]

[Footnote 3: Mr. Underhill's account, so far as it goes, corroborates
this description.]

[Footnote 4: It will be understood that I speak only of his remarks upon
the economical aspect of emancipation.]

[Footnote 5: Different estimates conflict as to numbers, though all
agreeing in the fact of an extensive and steady decline. I have used a
statement which appeared trustworthy.]

[Footnote 6: This was an absurd and wicked expedient for keeping him
free from family interests.]

[Footnote 7: This African epithet for the whites is said, in the
original, to bear the complimentary signification of 'devil.']

[Footnote 8: This is partly owing to the unwillingness of continued from
previous page: the negroes to remove to an unaccustomed place; but also,
I think, to their rooted conviction that the only security for their
independence is in having possession of the soil.]

[Footnote 9: Hanover has about one nineteenth of the whole population of
the island. But the economical condition of the parishes varies too
widely to make that of any one a basis for a general estimate.]

[Footnote 10: In common, they are by no means either so tawdry or so
ostentatious as they have the credit of being.]

ABIJAH WITHERPEE'S RETREAT.

For many years Abijah Witherpee had kept, in East Hampton, the largest
country store for miles around, and by more than ordinary shrewdness had
accumulated a snug little fortune, and with it the reputation among the
country folk of being an immensely rich man. It is no trifle, as ev