Pro-slavery Arithmetic: Reduction
Case i. Slavery be'wg an abstract evil, to reduce it to a practical blessing. JYole, that an abstract evil cannot be greater than an in conveniencc. Rule, Multiply the individual abstract evils by the whole number of slavebolders; the product wiil be the aggregate inconveniences or abstract evils of slavery. Then multiply the good of each particular shve by the total good of all the slaves, from which eubtract the total abstract evils the masters suffer, and the remainder will show the amount of pure un mixed blessing produced by elavery. Operaüon. Total humber of slaveholders in the Union 300,000; slavery being an ab stract evil to each one, the result is 300,000 abstract eVÃls or inconveniences to the rnastersi Then the total number of slaves, 2,500,000, multiplied by their uves, Ãfor every one knows they would starve to death if their masters did not provide for them,) gives two and a half million uves, entirely dependant on thetinuance of 6lavery, from which deduct 300, 000 inconveniences endured by the masters on their account) and the result of continuing slavery will be the preservation of the lives
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