Many times a day they repeat these words: "All men are brothers.

Love thy neighbor as thyself; in this are the law and the prophets fulfilled." Yet they hold slaves, and nothing seems to them more legitimate or natural.

Do modern reformers hope that their moral creed will ever be as universally accepted, as popular, as authoritative, or as often on all lips as the Gospel?
If _that_ has not passed from the lips to the heart, over or through the great barrier of self-interest, how can they hope that their system will work this miracle?
Well, then, is slavery invulnerable?
No; self-interest, which founded it, will one day destroy it, provided the special interests which have created it do not stifle those general interests which tend to overthrow it.
Another truth demonstrated by political economy is, that free labor is progressive, and slave labor stationary.

Hence the triumph of the first over the second is inevitable.

What has become of the cultivation of indigo by the blacks?
Free labor, applied to the production of sugar, is constantly causing a reduction in the price.