Are they _Sabbath breakers_? Slavery has taught them to desecrate the day of rest, by making it to them almost the only day of recreation, the only day for visiting, for trading and for tilling their gardens. Are they _thieves_? They consider stealing from their masters to be only making _reprisals_ for the robbery of their just wages; while many of them are strongly tempted to steal by the desire of more or better food. Are they _liars_? They will continue such, while they are slaves. They will pretend sickness, to avoid labor; they will say they do not wish to be free, lest their masters should sell them into distant banishment; they will lie to conceal the unavoidable delinquences, for which slaves are daily upbraided and beaten. Are they _idle_? As slaves they have no hope of reward to stimulate their exertions. They will work much better, as one facetiously expresses it, for Mr. CASH than for Mr. LASH. Let their wives and children be dependent on their industry for support, a far more noble and efficient motive than the fear of violence, to call forth the energies of man. Are they _improvident_? They cannot learn to save property, until they are allowed to hold it in their own right. Make them free, and then that faculty of their nature, which the phrenologists call “acquisitiveness” will prompt them to save their earnings. Are they _licentious_? Then give them their liberty, that the husband and father may be the legal protector of his wife and daughters. Are they _revengeful_? Redress their wrongs, and they will forgive their oppressors. Are they _heathen_? Take your foot from their necks, before you disgrace christianity, by attempting to convert them. Are they _ignorant of letters_? So are a majority of the freemen of the world; nor is it to be expected that slave-holders will teach their slaves to read and write, until they repent of Slavery itself. The vices of the Slaves are inseparable from their condition. If they are not now fit for freedom, Slavery, which unfitted them, will perpetuate their unfitness. Nor is their degradation of mind and morals a disqualification for freedom. You may find its counterpart in the characters of a large class of citizens in every country.