I0O THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 
. “ Man can’t smoke and whistle at one time.” 
“‘ No trus’ pigeon in corn field.” 
‘‘ Neber trow ’way your stick till you get a top ob de hill.” 
“Play wid monkey, no play wid him tail.” 
‘Spider and fly can’t make bargain.” 
Often I have heard the people speak of the grand old days of 
slavery, but grander still and more glorious will be the position of 
Jamaica, when, awakened, she takes her place with other countries 
of the world in the march of progress, developing her vast possibili- 
ties. She will yet rise again the “ Pearl of the Antilles,” in greater 
glory than ever, her history illumined by an industrious and pro- 
gressive people, free from bondage and enjoying all the blessings 
and influence of Britain’s rule, recognizing the dignity of honest 
labor, a re-awakened people, ever loyal to the flag which freed the 
slave, and which is to-day the emblem of hope as well as protection 
the world over. Jamaica was among the first of Britain’s colonies 
to offer to send a contingent of her sons to Africa to teach the tyrant 
Boer that he who insults the mother must answer to her sons. 
Nowhere have I witnessed more devoted loyalty to the British 
Crown—not even in Canada—than among the people of Jamaica, 
and their loyalty has had a severe test in their submitting in the past 
to British free trade policy destroying the sugar industry, but which 
injustice I hope will soon be remedied. ‘Their love for our late 
beloved Queen was beyond description ; they called her the Supreme 
Lady of Jamaica. They loved her not alone for her regal graces, 
but her noble womanhood and her tender-hearted goodness. They 
felt that love was her law. Never, indeed, was there such a monarch 
since the day of creation ; her throne was an altar and her home a 
temple of God ; death moulded into full completion the statue of 
her life. While the world was bowed with woe at her death, the 
records from Jamaica told how the natives and white people 
mourned as “one that mourneth for his mother.” ‘That same loyal 
devotion which they gave to the mother they render to-day to the 
son of his mother. 
After bidding good-bye to the officials at the Exhibition I called 
at the Collegiate Institute to present the Principal with the large 
map of Canada we had in the Exhibition building, for the use of the 
school. I addressed the scholars, told them about Canada, and 
