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Excerpt from Immediate Emancipation: The Only Wise and Safe Mode Suppose that the three hundred thousand slaveholders in the United States had, five years since, given freedom to all the slaves in this country, and that the Legislatures of the Slave States had, by a suitable code of laws, provided for such a state of things, securing the masters from injury, and the emancipated from Oppression, leaving it to the par ties to make their own contracts for labor and its remunera tion; preventing vagrancy; assuring to the laborers the rewards of industry; providing for the education of the young; and, in all suitable ways, protecting the people, employers and employees, and their dependents, in their rights - who doubts, in the light of what has been achieved by similar regulations in the British and French islands, in the light of common-sense, and in view of the natural Operation of just and humane laws, that both the late mas ters and the late slaves, nay, the whole community, would, by this time, have been in a well-regulated, peaceful, and prosperous condition - servants being obedient to their masters or employers, and the masters or employers giv ing to their servants that which is just and equal? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.