Of the other Leeward Islands, Sewell says, (p. 164,) "The condition of the free peasant rises infinitely above that of the slave. In all, the people are more happy and contented; in all, they are more civilized; in all, there are more provisions grown for home-consumption than ever were raised in the most flourishing days of slavery; in all, the imports have largely increased; in all, a very important trade has sprung up with the United States; from all, there is an exportation of minor articles which were not cultivated twenty years ago, and which, in estimating the industry of a people under a free system, are often most unjustly overlooked. These are considerations from which the planter turns with contemptuous indifference. Sugar, and sugar alone, is his dream, his argument, his faith." Yet the following table of exports of sugar shows that even in that free labor has been successful. _Comparative Table of Sugar Exportations in Pounds from the Leeward Islands._[K] Islands. Annual average from Exports in 1820 to 1832. 1858. Antigua, 20,580,000 lbs. 26,174,000 lbs. Dominica, 6,000,000 6,263,000 Nevis, 5,000,000 4,400,000 Montserrat, 1,840,000 1,308,000 St. Kitt's, 12,000,000 10,000,000 ---------- ---------- Total, 45,420,000 lbs. 48,145,000 lbs. _Table of Imports in Value._ Islands. Annual average value Value of imports from 1820 to 1832. in 1858. Antigua, £130,000 £266,364 Dominica, 62,000 84,906 Nevis, 28,000 36,721 Montserrat, 18,000 17,844 St. Kitt's, 60,000 109,000 -------- -------- Total, £298,000 £514,835 Excess of sugar exportations under free labor, 2,725,000 lbs. Excess of imports with free labor, £216,835 [Footnote K: Sewell's _Ordeal of Free Labor_, etc.] Of GUIANA, a resident writes,--"The portion of the native population which in other countries constitutes the working class is estimated here at 70,000 souls. They present the singular spectacle, which we can contemplate in no other part of the world, of a people hardly escaped from slavery, enjoying already properties in land and houses for which they have paid nearly £100,000."