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The Sable Cloud

CHAPTER VI
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Out-of-door labor there is injurious to the white people, as you know.

They are not to be blamed for this.

God has not given them strength to endure exposure to the sun.

Had they a northern climate, in which the labor required by the mechanic arts could be performed with safety and comfort, do you not suppose that they would have the same aptitude and relish as we for handicraft?
Their children cannot be brought up to manual labor to the extent that ours are, because the God of heaven has ordained their lot in a land less favorable than ours to toil.

His providence, making use of the sins of men, has placed the blacks here; you and the rest of the world, who depend upon their cotton, are willing enough to use it in its countless forms, while you reproach your Maker, as I think, for having caused it to be raised as he has seen fit to do." "But Oh," said Mr.North, "free labor is more profitable than slave labor.


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