Efforts are now making to obtain the repeal of the law which makes marriages performed by sectarians (as all save the established church are called) void.
[Footnote A: What a resurrection to domestic life was that, when long severed families flocked from the four corners of the island to meet their kindred members! And what a glorious resurrection will that be in our own country, when the millions of emancipated beings scattered over the west and south, shall seek the embraces of parental and fraternal and conjugal love.] That form of licentiousness which appears among the higher classes in every slaveholding country, abounded in Antigua during the reign of slavery.

It has yielded its redundant fruits in a population of four thousand colored people; double the number of whites.

The planters, with but few exceptions, were unmarried and licentious.

Nor was this vice confined to the unmarried.

Men with large families, kept one or more mistresses without any effort at concealment.