Slavery Inconsistent With Justice And Good Policy Proved By a Speech Delivered
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Where no confidence can be put in men of public truft, the exercife of government muft be very uneafy, and the condition of the people extremely wretched. We may conclude, with the utmoft cer- tainty, that it would be bad policy to reduce matters to this unhappy Situation. Slavery naturally tends to fap the foundations of moral, and confe- quenriy of political virtue} and virtue is abfolutely neceffary for the happinefs and profperity of a free people. Slavery produces idlenefs j and idlenefs i...s thenurfe of vice. A vicious commonwealth is a build- ing erected on quick-land, the inhabitants of which can never abide in fafety. Young gentlemen, who ought to be the honour and fupport of the ftate, when they have in profpect an independant fortune confifting in land and flaves, which they can eafily devolve on a faithful overfeeror fteward, become the moft ufelefsandiniignificant members of fociety. There 9 [ II ] There is no confining them to ufeful ftudies, or any bu fine fs that will tit them for fcrving the public.
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