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IMPOLICY OF THE SLAVE-TRADE. 



persons is not placed to the greatest advantage ; 

 their time is misemployed in performing alone, 

 with great difficulty, what would be done easily, 

 if several persons were occupied together. This 

 is particularly apparent in a new country, where 

 the obstacles which are to be surmounted in pre- 

 paring lands for culture are so numerous and of 

 such magnitude. If a- man is aware that the 

 obtaining of his daily bread depends directly 

 upon the exertions of each day, it is probable 

 that he will be careful in making use of the pre- 

 sent moment, and not put off until the morrow 

 what will so materially benefit him ; and as he 

 knows that his comforts depend upon his regu- 

 lar exertions, he will be more inclined to go 

 through his daily occupations with punctuality. 

 But if his gains do not correspond with the 

 work which he does daily, the probability is 

 that some carelessness will be perceived ; and 

 he will, from trifling causes, delay the perform- 

 ance of a task until a future moment. The 

 hire which a labourer in the service of another 

 man receives, is only rendered to him if he has 

 performed his allotted work, otherwise the time 

 is lost ; no good fortune, no lucky season can 

 reclaim it ; but if his profits are expected to be 

 meted to him rather from the richness of the 

 land which he has cultivated, from a favourable 

 season, from the excellence of the seed, or from 

 these causes combined, or from others which 



