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Letter XIV. Provison for Liberated Prisoners.
The circumstance touched upon at the close of
my last letter suggests another advantage, and that not an inconsiderable
one, which you will find more particularly,if not exclusively
connected with the Contract plan.
The turning of the prisoners' labour into the most profitable
channels being left free, depending upon the joint choice of the two only
parties interested in pushing the advantage to the utmost, would afford a
resource, and that I should conceive a sure one, for the subsitence of
the prisoners after the expiration of their terms. No trade that could be
carried on in this state of thraldom, but could be carried on with at
least equal advantage, in a state of liberty. Both parties would probably
find their account in continuing their manufacturing connection, after the
dissolution of every other. The workman, after the stigma cast on him by
the place of his abode, would probably not find it so easy to get employment
elsewhere. If he got it at all, it would be upon terms proportioned
in some measure to the risk which an employer at large might think
he would run on his own part, and in some cases to the danger of driving
away fellow workmen, by the introduction of an associate who might
prove more or less unwelcome. He would therefore probably come cheaper
to his former master than another man would; at the same time that he
would get more from him in his free state than he had been used to get
when confined.
Whither
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