[380] Guerney, "A Winter in the West Indies," 21.
[381] Ibid., 22.
[382] Ibid., 23.
[383] This insurrection is well set forth in Knox's "St. Thomas" on page 110 et seq. and in Taylor's "Leaflets from the Danish West Indies," page 125 et seq.
[384] Taylor, "Leaflets from the West Indies," pp. 127-128.
[385] Ibid., 129.
[386] Before things returned to the former state Oberst V. Oxholm arrived to displace General v. Scholten as governor. The latter was tried by a Commission and condemned for dereliction of duty by the influence of the slave-holding class whom he had angered because of his favorable attitude towards the Negroes. Upon appealing to the Supreme Court, however, he was acquitted.
[387] See "Labour Act" in Documents of this number.
[388] See Taylor, "Leaflets from the Danish West Indies," 151 et seq.
[389] Rhodes, "History of the United States," V, 397.