He said that it was violently opposed, until it was seen to be inevitable.

Many were the predictions made respecting the ruin which would be brought upon the colony; but these predictions had failed, and abolition was now regarded as the salvation of the island.
SABBATH.
The morning of our first Sabbath in Antigua came with that hushed stillness which marks the Sabbath dawn in the retired villages of New England.

The arrangements of the family were conducted with a studied silence that indicated habitual respect for the Lord's day.

At 10 o'clock the streets were filled with the church-going throng.

The rich rolled along in their splendid vehicles with liveried outriders and postillions.