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 much uneasiness. Had such been the case,--what would have been the appalling, and probable, nay, almost _certain_ result,--if I may judge from the well known feelings of the white population generally,--_that that unfortunate company would have been instantly turned upon, by men of all parties, and massacred on the spot with their own weapons!_" . . . . . "Allow me, therefore, at all events briefly to remark, that before any thing can be accomplished connected with the moral and religious improvement of the negro settlers, they must be rescued from the hands of the utterly ignorant and uneducated, yet conceited coxcombs of their own color, who assume to themselves the grave character and holy office of ministers and preachers of the gospel, and lead their still more ignorant followers into all the extravagancies of 'Love Feasts' and 'Camp Meetings,' without at all comprehending their import, and at the same time utterly neglecting all other essentials!--an object well deserving of the most serious and anxious consideration of an enlightened Government, as far as those who are already settled in the country are concerned; while it would be a most sound and politic measure to take every lawful step to discourage as much as possible, if we can not altogether _prevent_ the further introduction of so objectionable and deleterious a class of settlers into a BRITISH _colony_." . . . . "Perhaps one of the wisest measures that could be