Excerpt from Slavery: Attitudes About Slavery; Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources The policy of the founders of the Republid, find the 'acts of the zidministratioa Washington, J ohn Adams and J efierson, in regard to this vexed question, furnish the only safe and prudent course for imitation. 'the only hope for the te moval of the giant evil is to be found in the ope ration of those silent yet potent laws of political economy, which must ultimately determine the question between free and slave labor. In such a Contest, barbarism has but slight een'se for hepe, intln's age of invention, enlightenment and pro gress.. The census of 1860 will make many reve; lutions upon this subject - a-nd a contrast between the new Free States -of the Northwest and the oldest Slave States, will doubtless show that our fatheis dia'hot err in their devotion to Liberty, and were wise in the hdoption of the famous ordi nance which foiever dedicated the Northwest to Freedom. 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.