Who will care for him when he is old, or sick?
Granting this apprentice scheme to be arranged without oppression or sin of any kind, I hold that the condition of our slaves owned by masters and mistresses, is better than such a hireling condition, though it have the appearance of liberty." "Why so ?" inquired Mr.North.
"The slaves are not treated as hired horses are liable to be treated," I replied.

"We know how a man is likely to treat his own horse, compared with the horse which he hires.

Men nurse their slaves when they are sick; they provide for them when they are old.

By their care and responsibility for them, and in relieving them from responsibility, they pay them wages whose market-value, if it could be reckoned in dollars, would be higher wages than are paid to the same class of laborers in the land.

There are not four millions of the lower class of the laboring people in any one district of the earth whose condition is to be compared with that of the Southern slaves for comfort and happiness." "I presume," said Mrs.North, "that you would not regard exemption from responsibility as in itself a blessing.