n attended with some good effect.'. . . . .

"In spite of all these reiterated, anxious
endeavors, the amount of crime exhibited in the
Calendar of the following Quarter Sessions, in
April last, consisted solely (I think) of five
cases of larceny, perpetrated by negroes; and at
the late Assizes, held on the 20th instant, out of
five criminal cases, one of enticing soldiers to
desert, and two of theft, were, as usual,
committed by men of color!!!

"Having thus completed a painful retrospect of the
appalling amount of crime committed by the colored
population in the District at large, compared with
the general mass of the white population, I now
consider it my duty to advert more particularly to
what has been passing more immediately under my
own observation in the township of Colchester."

The record from which we quote, has, under this head, the statement of
the township collector, as to the moral and social condition of the
colored people of the township, in which he says, "that, in addition to
the black women there were fourteen yellow ones, and fifteen _white_
ones--that they run together like beasts, and that he did not suppose
one third of them were married; and further, that they would be a curse
to this part of Canada, unless there is something done to put a stop to
their settling among the white people.'

In referring to the enlistment of the blacks as soldiers, to the
prejudice of the legitimate prospects of the deserving European
emigrants, the record says: "With regard to continuing to employ the
colored race to discharge--in some instances exclusively, as is now the
case at Chatham--the duties of regular soldiers, in such times as these,
_in a country peopled by BRITONS_, I regard it as not only impolitic in
the extreme, but even _dangerous_ also,--besides throwing a stigma of
degradation on the honorable profession of which I was for twenty-four
years of my life a devoted member. And I even put it to yourself, sir,
what would have been your feelings, if, amid the great political
excitement prevalent during the late Kent election,[90] there had been a
serious disturbance and some unthinking magistrate had called in '_the
aid of the military_' to quell it, and blood had been shed!--for the
thing was within possibility, and for some time gave me mu