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155 business as the former, and perhaps much better; these complain very much indeed. Sometimes liquor dealers, who are patronised more by these classes than the Negroes, join in the unpopular complaints. If the colored people sell their produce cheaper in market than some others, they also complain, "Too many Niggers here, they keep the price down in the market, if they continue to come, I don't know what we shall do," &c. These vile calumniators should remember what the Negroes lose in the price of their produce, they may make it up in the quantity they sell, and thus demonstrate a talent for trading. These are the character of the complaints, and the source from whence they emanate. It is quite conspicuous that it is a mere jealousy of business competition. I think I am quite justifiable and within the range of human probabilities in saying, not a newspaper editor in Canada would feel free to subject himself to public censure by uttering such aspersions upon the coloured population. On the first of January, 1859, in conversation with His Excellency the Governor Sir Edmund Head, on the progress of the coloured people, he made the following very significant remark, "We have plenty of territory for these emigrants." On the 12th of the same month, in conversation with the Governor-General, at his residence, he asked me "if it was