294 INDISPOSITION TO WORK. [chap. viii. 
instead of being a useful member of society, be not 
only became a useless burden to tbe community, but 
a plotter and intriguer, imbued with a deadly hatred 
to the white man who had generously declared him 
free. 
Now, as the negro was originally imported as a 
labourer, but now refuses to labour, it is self-evident 
that he is a lamentable failure. Either he must be 
compelled to work, by some stringent law against 
vagrancy, or those beautiful countries that prospered 
under the conditions of negro forced industry must 
yield to ruin, under negro freedom and idle inde¬ 
pendence. For an example of the results, look to St. 
Domingo ! 
Under peculiar guidance, and subject to a certain 
restraint, the negro may be an important and most 
useful being ; but if treated as an Englishman, he will 
affect the vices but none of the virtues of civilization, 
and his natural good qualities will be lost in his 
attempts to become a “ white man.” 
Revenons d nos moutons noirs. It was amusing 
to watch the change that took place in a slave that 
had been civilized (?) by the slave-traders. Among 
their parties, there were many blacks who had been 
captured, and who enjoyed the life of slave-hunting— 
nothing appeared so easy as to become professional in 
