A Negro, if he worked for himself, could do double work.

By an improvement then in the mode of labour, the work in the islands could be doubled.

But if so, what would become of the argument of his honourable friend?
for then only half the number of the present labourers were necessary.
He would now try this argument of expediency by other considerations.

The best informed writers on the subject had told us, that the purchase of new Negros was injurious to the planters.

But if this statement was just, would not the abolition be beneficial to them?
That it would, was the opinion of Mr.Long, their own historian.