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hvd.32044080378417	Stuart, Charles	The West India question. Immediate emancipation would be safe for the masters;--profitable for the masters;--happy for the slaves;--right in the government;--advantageous to the nation;--would interfere with no feelings but such as are disgraceful and destructive;--cannot be postponed without continually increasing danger. An outline for immediate emancipation; and remarks on compensation By Charles Stuart 	1833		.txt	text/plain	13885	663	69	" Scarcely was this opinion transmitted, and the new slave law promulgated, than a negro came before him with a collar rivetted round The negroes continually increasing, the price of labor would proportionably diminish, and facilitate the opening of new lands; cattle, I reply, it is true that the negroes were still slaves, legally, but practically they were free: they were secured from all arbitrary punishments; their few crimes were tried by their peers; they received to be entirely provided for by him; but whether, in all cases, generally, it is better for a poor man to be the subject of just and equal laws, British slave masters have vastly better means for securing the happiness of the negroes, than by keeping them in slavery? fundamentally, in the Negro slave system, being removed by its abolition; and every mind in the colonies being left free to bring its negro slave party, will have it, that a man labors most profitably for	./cache/hvd.32044080378417.pdf	./txt/hvd.32044080378417.txt