Show than 61 the total number slaves in the united states wien the emancipation proclamation wa issued is reckoned as the total number of drunkards in the united states alone is about and there arc probably other persons bound to these by family tics and sharing in the burden of their curse As a result of the slave system millions were transferred from calms of savagery to a realm of civilization with more advantages on the whole even under slavery than they bad in their native land the slave was not an economic loss the drunkard is african slavery was limited to a comparatively small field liquor invades all civilization slavery was a wrong on the lower races intemperance afflicts the highest from any point of view liquor has done incalculably harm than african slavery voice |