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apprenticeship have ruined me. It was, as carried 

 out, one of the greatest errors the Whigs committed 

 — and, by Jove, that is saying a good deal." 



He looked hard at me for a moment, and then re- 

 joined, " That is, I am an Abolitionist when the blacks 

 are fit to receive their liberty. ^^ 



'^ Oh, oh ! then you agree with me their time is 

 not arrived yet ? " 



" No," he said, *^ and won't be for some years to 

 come. Why, Providence itself still shows they are 

 only fit to labour for the whites." 



" How is the Divine will so marked ? " 



" How ! why look at 'em ; look at their woolly 

 heads ; it aint like human hair — nor their colour 

 neither ; they don't even smell like a Christian. It's 

 evident, all the world over, that they have no busi- 

 ness to be put on a footing with the whites yet." 



" Enough, Captain," I replied ; " it had been better 

 for all of us British Guiana proprietors if you had 

 been king of our colonies. I always say that a 

 monosyllable conveys a deal of meaning ; — your ' yet ' 

 would have lasted my life, and the lives of babes 

 unborn ! " 



The Captain smiled, and said, *' Well, aint it so ? " 



*^ I can't deny some of your personal facts," I 

 replied ; " and even spiritually I fear that which 



