If the world had not by this time thoroughly
assessed the intrinsic value of Mr. Froude's utterances, one who
knows Grenada might have felt inclined to resent his causeless
depreciation of the intellectual capacity of its inhabitants; but
considering the estimate which has been pretty generally formed of
his historical judgment, Mr. Froude may be dismissed, as regards
Grenada and its people, with a certain degree of scepticism. Such
scepticism, though lost upon himself, is unquestionably needful to
protect his readers from the hallucination which the author's
singular contempt for accuracy is but too liable to induce.
Those who know Grenada and its affairs are perfectly familiar with
the fact that all of its chief intellectual business, whether
official (even in the highest degree, such as temporary [50]
administration of the government), legal, commercial, municipal,
educational, or journalistic, has been for years upon years carried
on by men of colour. And what, as a consequence of this fact, has
the world ever heard in disparagement of Grenada throughout this long
series of years? Assuredly not a syllable.
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