That the abolition of slavery gave the death blow to open vice, overgrown and emboldened as it had become.

Immediate emancipation, instead of lifting the flood-gates, was the only power strong enough to shut them down! It restored the proper restraints upon vice, and supplied the incentives to virtue.

Those great controllers of moral action, _self-respect, attachment to law, and veneration for God_, which slavery annihilated, _freedom has resuscitated_, and now they stand round about the emancipated with flaming swords deterring from evil, and with cheering voices exhorting to good.

It is explicitly affirmed that the grosser forms of immorality, which in every country attend upon slavery, have in Antigua either shrunk into concealment or become extinct.
BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS.
We insert here a brief account of the benevolent institutions of Antigua.

Our design in giving it, is to show the effect of freedom in bringing into play those charities of social life, which slavery uniformly stifles.