His black friends looked up to him to protect them--and he would press his motion that all the apprentices in the island should be _crowned_ on the 28th of June.

(Thundering roars of laughter.) He was as independent as any honorable member, and would deliver his sentiment, without caring who were and who were not pleased.

He was possessed of property in apprentices--_he had an estate with nearly two hundred negroes, that he was determined to crown on the 28th of June_.

(Increased roars of laughter in the house, and at the bar.) He would not be laughed down.
His properties were not encumbered.

He would not owe anything on them after they were paid for, and that he could do.