There is nothing so melancholy as a country in its decadence, unless it be a people in their decadence.  I am not aware that the latter misfortune can be attributed to the Anglo-Saxon race ...

 There is nothing so melancholy as a country in its decadence, unless it be a people in their decadence.  I am not aware that the latter misfortune can be attributed to the Anglo-Saxon race in any part of the world; but there is reason to fear that it has fallen on an English colony in the island of Jamaica.