ABSTRACT
America is in the singular position of being nearly equally divided between a low degree of the ancient barbarism in relation to labour, and a high degree of the modern enlightenment. It is well known that the most savage violences that are now heard of in the world take place in the southern and western States of America. This chapter focuses on the morals of slavery, morals of manufactures, and morals of commerce. The vicious fundamental principle of morals in a slave country, that labour is disgraceful, taints the infant mind with a stain which is as fatal in the world of spirits as the negro tinge is at present in the world of society. It is said in the United States that Commerce and the Navy are patronised by the Federal party; as agriculture is, and the army would be, if there was one, by the Democratic party.
