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the blood oi Kidnapped innoeents but load cd with no heavier curse than abolition and ifs begotten ianaticisms have brought upon your taiui some of them fulfilled, some yet to be. Betbesides the first cost of the slave, ne must be fed and ciothen; well fed and well clethedi il not for humanity's sake, that ne may do good work, retain health and life, ana rear .antl to osupply his place. When oia or sick, he is clear expense. and so is tlie helpless portion of his family. No poor law provides for him when unable to work. or brings ep his children for our service. ! when we need them. These are all heavy charges on slave labor Hence, in all coaa- i mes where Inc den$eness of the population ] mas reduced t t9 matter of perfect certain- " that labor can De obtained whenever wan ted, and the labofer be forred by sheer ne- cessiiy 10 hire for the small pitta1ce that will keep soul aud besly together, aud rags upon ms hack while in actual employment de- l pendent ai all other times on alnis or poor rates h aii such countries Il is found chcap- CT 10 pay this pitianee than to cloihe, feed, nurse, support thfoues. childhood, and pen slon in old age Taoe of slaves Indeed, The adYantaFe is so great as speedily to com pensale for ,le loas If tie value of the slaves. And ] have no hesitation in saying, that if | eoald eHltYalo ny buds ou these terms, I would, Wuliaut word, resign my slaves, l provided they could De pFope Y disposed of. l But the question is whether free or slave la ] Dor IS cheapest to use in this country at this ! tune, situated as we are. And 1t is decided at once by the fact, that we cannot avail our selves oi any other chan slave labor We l neither have nor can we procure other labor toany extent or on any thing like the terms mentioned. Wemust therefore content our selves with cur deur Iabor under the conso- ling reflection that what is lost to us, is 1 gained to humanity; and that inasmueh as our slave costs Us more than your free man costs You, by so much is he better off You will promptly say, emancipaie your slaves. and then yeu will have free labor on sui.a- l hle terms. That might De, if there were five i hundred where there i5 now one and the continent from tie Atlantic to the Pacific, Was as densely populated as your Islaud-- But unil tia. comes 0 pass, no labor can ] be procured ia America on the terms you have it
 While l thus freely admit that to the in. diFidpal proprietor, slave labor is dearer than i free, do mol mean b admit il as equally l clear that | ls dearer to the community aud ] to the State. Though it Is certain that l the slave isa fur greater consumer than your ] iaboref, the year round, yet your pauper sys- 1 ten IS eostly and ~astelHl. Supported by ! your community at larges il s uot adminis- tered by yoHf hifed agents with that inieres- l ted care and ecoaomy-not to speak of hu- Haalty ty-wHicl mark tie management of ours by each proprietor for his non.eGecaves, and Is both more expensive tn those who l pay, and less beaefeia to those who receive l its boantieg. Besides tbie, slayery is mpidly filing ID our connfg with hardy aud heal l thy race, peculiarly adapted to our climate and productions, and comforting signal polit- ical and social advantages on us as a people, to which have already referred.
 The research aud integrity of the aboli- tionists, aided by tine invention of runaway slayea-in which faculty, sc far as improvi-
 ;. .;!e ;.;,;! secs !:a .!:a; ifc. :s .h out q riyal--have succeeded in checking the world with q small number of pfetended in- stances of our barbariiy The only wonder IS that considering the extent of our coun- try, the variety of our population, its huciu- atlng character, and the publicity of all our transactions, the number of cases collected IS so small. l. speaks well for Us. let of these, many are false, all highly colored, some occurring half century, most of them many years ago; and no doubt large pro- portion of them pefpetraed by foreigners.- l With few rare exceptions, the emigrant Scotch and English are the worst masters among us, and next t0 them our northern lellow-citzens. Slave holders born and bred here, are always more humane 10 slaves, and those who have grown up to large inheri- lance oi than, the most so of any--showing clearly that the effect of the system is to foster kindly feelings. do not mean so
 much 10 impute innate humanity 10 foreign
 CTS, as 10 show that they come here with false notions of the treatment usual and ne- cessary for -layes, and that newly acquired power here, as every where else, is apt to be abused cannot entee into detailed exam- iaaiioa of the cases stated bY the abolilion- ists l. would be disgusting, and of little avail. know nothing like them, though born and bred here, and have rarely heard of anything at all io be compared with them Permit me to say tia. thiHk most of your facts must have been drawn from the West Indies, where undoubtedly slaves we tecaied much more harsbly tmn with us. This was owing to variety of causes, which might, if necessary, be stated.