With adequate profit,capital is very bold. A certain 10 per cent. will ensure its employment anywhere; 20 per cent. certain will produce eagerness; 50 per cent, positive audacity; 100 per cent. will make it ready to trample on all human laws; 300 per cent. and there is not a crime at which it will scruple nor a risk it will not run, even to the chance of its owner being hanged. If turbulence and strife will bring a profit, it will freely encourage both Smuggling and the slave trade has amply proved all that is here stated. 7 ?3 |9 A3 `5 ^- `+ J7 x0 g$ S
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