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Indies profess to be apprehensive of insurrection; nevertheless they admit sectarians of one denomination or another into their estates. The negros are a very curious and observant race, and after they have learnt that there is a God, the next thing they learn is, that their master does not worship him in the same manner with themselves. They believe their worship is true, and therefore they must think their master's false. While they remain on the brink of civilization, this will have but inconsiderable consequences, but the seeds are laid, a beginning is effected; the individual or his family becomes more knowing in process of time; he perceives the ingredients of distinction more clearly, and gradually and necessarily imbibes that spirit of separation which religious schism is sure to generate. Moreover, a completely organized espionage is a fundamental point in the system of the Methodists; the secrets of every family are at their command; parent and child are watches on each other; sister is set against sister, and brother against brother; each is on his guard against all, and all against each. In this manner these sectarians possess an army of dependents already lodged within every house, and fixed in the heart of every plantation. Their dominion over these poor people is as absolute as was ever that of Jesuits over Jesuits. The fear of being turned out of their class * operates like the dread of losing * In Anguilla a man told me he was in God Al-