Part 109 (1/2)
Grand Total 3490
Total compromised, admonished and dismissed from 1st to 31st August 105 Ditto from the 1st to 30th September 113 Ditto from 1st to 15th October 38
Total 256
Deficiency in compromised cases in 1837 comparatively with those of 1838 158
Grand Total 414
FREEDOM.
Total of Complaints vs. Labourers from the 1st to the 31st August 1838 582 Ditto from the 1st to the 30th September 386 Ditto from the 1st to the 15th October 103
Total 1071
Comparative Surplus of Complaints in 1838 2675
Grand Total 3746
Total of Laborers punished from the 1st to the 31st August, 1838, 334 Ditto from the 1st to 30th September 270 Ditto from the 1st to 15th October 53
Total 657
Comparative surplus of punishment in 1837 2833
Grand total 3490
Total compromised, admonished and dismissed from the 1st to the 31st August 248 Ditto from the 1st to 30th September 116 Ditto from the 1st to 15th October 50
Grand Total 414
NOTE.
It may be proper to remark that the accompanying General Abstract for August, September, and to the 15th October, 1837, does not include complaints preferred and heard before the Local Magistrates during those months for such offences--viz. for misdemeanors, petty debts, a.s.saults and petty thefts--as were not cognizable by the Special Justices; so that estimating these offences--the number of which does not appear in the Abstract for 1837--at a similar number as that enumerated in the Abstract for 1838, the actual relative difference of punishments between the two and a half months in 1837 and these in 1838, would thus appear:
Surplus of Apprentices punished in 1837, as above 2833
Offences in August, September, and to the 15th, October, 1837 heard before the General Justices of the Peace, and estimated as follows:
Petty thefts 75 a.s.saults 143 Misdemeanors 98 Petty Debts 19--835
Actual surplus of punishment in 1837, 3168
From the Journal of Commerce.
_Letter from W.R. Hays, Esq. Barbados, W.I. to Rev. H.G. Ludlow, of New Haven_.
BARBADOS, Dec. 26, 1838.
I gave you in my last, some account of the manner in which the first day of emanc.i.p.ation came and went in this island. We very soon afterwards received similar accounts from all the neighboring islands. In all of them the day was celebrated as an occasion ”of devout thanksgiving and praise to G.o.d, for the happy termination of slavery.” In all of them, the change took place in a manner highly creditable to the emanc.i.p.ated, and intensely gratifying to the friends of liberty. The quiet, good order, and solemnity of the day, were every where remarkable. Indeed, is it not a fact worth remembering, that whereas in former years, a single day's relaxation from labor was met by the slaves with shouting and revelry, and merry-making, yet now, when the last link of slavery was broken forever, sobriety and decorum were especially the order of the day.