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Excerpt from Prize Essay, on the Comparative Economy of Free and Slave Labour, in Agriculture
The question before us is a branch of the general question of slavery. But perhaps it does not embrace the most fascinating topics for discussion, which are presented to the mind by the whole of that great and momentous subject. It reaches none of those elevated Objections to domestic slavery, which many of the Wise and good think they discover in politics, religion, or natural law. We are now simply to compare free with slave labour, as a. Means of cultivating the soil. We are to answer the very natural enquiry of the farmerfi'é which of these spe cies of labour his own personal advantage calls upon him to employ. If we can convince him that free labour is the best, slavery, we hope, will in time go out of fashion, like an unhandy farming tool on the introduction of a. New one upon an improved model.
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