These, also, would both of them be counteracted by the impossibility of getting further supplies for owners, now unable to replace those slaves whom they might lose, by speedy purchases in the markets, would be more careful how they treated them in future, and a better treatment would be productive of better morals. And here he would just advert to an argument used against those who complained of cruelty in our islands, which was, melissa and joey s03 it was the interest of masters to treat their slaves with humanity but surely it was immediate and present, not future and distant interest, which was the great spring of action in the affairs of mankind. Why did we make laws to punish men. It was their interest to be upright and virtuous but there was a present impulse continually breaking in upon their better judgment, and an impulse, which was known to melissa and joey s03 contrary to their permanent advantage. It was ridiculous to say that men would be bound by their interest, when gain or ardent passion urged them. It might as well be asserted, that a stone could not be thrown melissa and joey s03 the air, or a body move from place to place, because the principle of gravitation bound them to the surface of the earth. Barbados, Nevis, Antigua, and the Bermudas, were, like Jamaica, lessening their decrease, and holding forth an evident melissa and joey s03 reasonable expectation of a speedy state of increase by natural population.