It was very late when we got back to Lima, to the house of a merchant who had asked us to stay with him.  He told us that the blacks who attacked us were, he had no doubt, emancipated slaves, who had always borne a very bad character.  Had they been properly educated, and prepared for freedom, they might have turned out well; but those wretches are a melancholy example of what will be found to be the case in other countries where slavery still exists, should the slaves suddenly be made free, or should they rise and win their freedom for themselves.  Unless they are carefully trained--taught to depend on their own exertions, and instructed in the pure truths of Christianity-- they will, when freed, sink into a state of sloth and wretchedness; or if they rise to obtain their own freedom, they will, very certainly, be guilty of the most dreadful murders and every kind of atrocity in carrying out their designs.  I often have since thought of what our friend said, and have prayed that the people of the United States will make due preparation for enlightening those held so long in bondage.  On the nature of that preparation it defends (I have often heard Captain Frankland say) whether their dear-bought liberty shall give joy and gladness, or poverty and misery.