This most assuredly may be attained, if all the local circumstances and impediments, more or less superable, which the matter itself presents, are only taken into due account, and proper exertions made to study and discover the various indirect means of increasing the total mass of contributions, by applying a system more productive and analogous to the nature of the Philippine Islands.
"The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes"
Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes
But, were I to allow, that the obstacle in question, is as great, as you regard it-nevertheless will it not increase with the lapse of years, and become less superable the longer the work of abolition is postponed?
"The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus"
American Anti-Slavery Society