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~ ''il0oS WHICH VIII pFOOdDly be cas-


upon us IN no stinted measure. But we


know that 10 great geod was ever achiey.


ed without strenuous efforts and that such


efforts have always been subjected to le.


proachtul lmputatIons. We must. there


tore, patientl' submit to them; consider


ing them, In onr turn, as the ebllitions of


needless passion or uncompromising sell


tlshness. The awful weight of the sub


Ject torhds any approach to it in the splr


1t OF levlty: and we feel assured that we
approach 1t with as much caution as those


observe who turn away and refuse to look


1t IN the face But we should esteem it


moral and political cowarGice in us to re-


main silent en- subject so deeply inter.


estlng to us in all our domestic and poIit-


lcal relations one which inteImingIes it.


sell with every interest and concern of life;
productive; perhaps, of a few transient


Dement'S, but certainly Of an infinity ofevils,
now pressing upon us, and portending
general desOlation in future


We waive, at present, the considerations
OF religion and humanity which belong to
this momentous subject and present il as
a naked question of political wisdom and
safety. w hale svo believe, that the public
morals and general prosperity, which it is
the province of Cover lament to a great ex-
tent to protect and cherish and deplorably
injured by slavery, we proceed 10 affirm |
that 1t is our own experience and obser-
vation, confirming the facts and deduc-
tlons Of polite; economists, the labor of
slaves is vastly less productive than that of
free men that it, therefore, requires lar
ger space to furnish subsistence for a giv-
en- number ofthe former than of the latter;
thatthe employment ofthe former necessa-
rlly excludes the employment Of the lat
ter that, hence, our population. white and
black, averages but about seventeen, when
1t ought, and would, nnder other ciIcum-
stances, average, as in New England at
least sixty to square mile thai the pos 8
session and management of slaves form
source Of endless vexaton and misery {
within the house, and of waste and ruin ,
On the farm; that the youth OF the country |
Ire growing up with contempt of steady s
industry, as a low, scrvile thing, which c
induces idleness, and all its at G
endant eneminancy, vice and worthless v
hess that the waste of the products of the c
and, nav of the land itself, is bringing c
1overty upon all lis inhabitants; that this v
3yerty and the spareness of our popula- Il
ion, either prevent the institution ofschools Il
trough the country, or keep them in the il
most languid and inefficient condition; "
md that the same causes most obviously t.
'aralIze all onr schemes and efforts for the s.
leedful Improvements of the country. jlc
These things are necessarily pressing n
themselves upon our feelings and obser- r,
alton; and it would be easy to enlarge d