"There are about three and one-third millions of them now.

Say they are worth, old and young, large and little, one thousand dollars a head--monstrous thing, to put a price upon a human head, but suppose it.

It would amount to but a few billions of dollars.

What would a war cost between these two sections?
Perhaps a million dollars a day! How much cheaper could these slaves be purchased and deported from these shores! Their owners regard them as property.

The laws protect that belief.