If freedom were notprofitable slavery would never have ceased in this or in any other country. Yet gentlemen say. protect our freemen from slaves. from peons. and from paupers. But. sir. by proofs we have of the North compared with the South under the two systems of free labor upon the one hand and of even slave labor upon the other. by all the proofs we have of the prosperity of the South in excess of what she enjoyed under a system of even worse than peon or pauper laborby all these proofs. backed by the statistical facts I have adduced. I confidently affirm that we have nothing to fear. and that the proposed increase of this tax ought not to be adopted. (Here the hammer fell.I
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