Excerpt from A Treatise on the Patriarchal System of Society: As It Exists in Some Governments and Colonies in America, and in the United States, Under the Name of Slavery, With Its Necessity and Advantages Moreover, the free white man, with the greatest economy and industry, usually consumes nearly the whole product of his labor laying by but little, even under the most favorable circumstances, but with a smaller stock of prudence and exertion, which more commonly happens, he not only consumes all his earnings, but is compelled by cold, hunger, and want of employment, or ill health, to apply to the public for charity. whereas the negro by his labor, discreetly restrained under the Patriarchal System, not only furnish es clothing, implements of husbandry, and provisions, but creates a large export surplus to meet contingencies thus increasing the comfort and capital of the establishment, of which he considers himself an integral part.(4) 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.