You can command, without touching on that capital, three thousand dollars' worth of labor per annum. You could do no more were you to buy slaves with it, and then you would be cumbered with the cares of governing and providing for them. You are a slaveholder now, to the amount of fifty thousand dollars, with all the advantages, and none of the cares and responsibilities of a master. Why should they not be obliged to take care of man, their property, as they do of their horses and their hounds, their cattle and their sheep. You treat your horses and hounds better.
Capital is a cruel master.
The free slave trade, the commonest, yet the cruellest of trades.