Pro-slavery Arithmetic: An Extract: Reduction

CASE. - To reduce a wroug thing to a right One. ÍÍULE - Multiply the individual icrong fay that number of iudividuals which it lokes to make a govcrnment or naiion. 1 he product wiil be a general e.vpediency, which of course, can nol be wrong. Then divide thia product by the same number, and the quotiënt will be the righ eought. EXAMPLE.- Given "slavery a moral evil," to reduce it to the 'úight óf property." OPí.RAT1ON.- A thcft oí" the human eoul andboJy. - Multipücund. Tjtal number of slaveíiolders. - Multiplier. Total no. ) An expedieney or 'moral necessity.' holders. ) Law against emancipntion, &c. - ÜÜ0000O000 Quotiënt, - Iliglit of Property. OTE.- The al'overule may becorjvenientlv stated in an Algebrnic formula, thus: Theft X Popular VVill, =' Right of Propcrtrj. ThePeople. V.'hich may be tlius translated into common language: Manstialing, sanctljicd hy pullic sentiment, and dicided umoag the pcoplc, consíitutcs the