7964. SLAVES, Masters and.—
The inculcation
[in your book] on the master of the
moral duties which he owes to the slave, in
return for the benefits of his service, that is to
say, of food, clothing, care in sickness, and
maintenance under age and disability, so as to
make him in fact as comfortable and more secure
than the laboring man in most parts of the
world, * * * gives great merit to the
work, and will, I have no doubt, produce wholesome
impressions.—
To Clement Caine. Washington ed. vi, 13.
Ford ed., ix, 329.
(M.
1811)
