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Objection II. Under your Contract you were to have had
no fewer than 1000 Prisoners all worked under your
direction and for your advantage. This is too great
a power to be trusted in any individual hand.
Answer 1. It is no greater nor other power than
what by the law of the land every Master has over his
apprentice.
As to the number so far from being increased the
power, as to all purposes of abuse, is lessened by it.
Except his own particular relatives or other friends where
he is fortunate enough to have any, an Apprentice has
no person engaged by any special tie or interest to
look to him with a protecting eye. My Prisoners would
by the common and most obvious tie of interest
as level of sympathy stand engaged to afford to
another this as well as whatsoever other assistance
could be afforded, against oppression in every shape; at
the hands of the common master: and as to prisons
without doors such would accordingly have as many
friends in the friend of every other.
Answer 2. In so far as concerns sinister profit, this
objection would, together with the preceding example
cut up by the by the giving of the contract as
above.
Answer 3
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