Slave property is becoming proportionately less valuable to the master.

Slavery will soon die out in America unless the price of sugar is artificially raised by legislation.

Accordingly we see to-day the masters, their creditors and representatives, making vigorous efforts to maintain these laws, which are the pillars of the edifice.
Unfortunately they still have the sympathy of people among whom slavery has disappeared, from which circumstance the sovereignty of public opinion may again be observed.

If public opinion is sovereign in the domain of force, it is much more so in the domain of fraud.

Fraud is its proper sphere.