I will plant mine against it, and you will find he will talk no more of his experience when I tell him--tell him, too, without fear of contradiction--that during the year which followed the first of August, 1834, twice as much sugar per hour, and of a better quality as compared with the preceding years, was stored throughout the sugar districts; and that one man, a large planter, has expressly avowed, that with twenty freemen he could do more work than with a hundred slaves or fifty indentured apprentices.

(Hear, hear.) But Antigua!--what has happened there?
There has not been even the system of indentured apprentices.

In Antigua and the Bermudas, as would have been the case at Montserrat if the upper house had not thrown out the bill which was prepared by the planters themselves, there had been no preparatory step.

In Antigua and the Bermudas, since the first of August, 1834, not a slave or indentured apprentice was to be found.

Well, had idleness reigned there--had indolence supplanted work--had there been any deficiency of crop?
No.