Edmund explains his views through the stories and beliefs of colonists the first of them being the infamous Thomas Jefferson. Everyone most commonly associates Thomas Jefferson as the man with the very large signature on the Declaration …show more content…
These men believed that if the numbers if idle men and women continued to rise it would lead to the ultimate downfall of the civilization. Ferguson related this situation to that of the Roman republic where the, “Slaves, who increased, by their numbers and their vises, the weight of that dreg, which, in great and prosperous cities, ever sinks, by the tendency of vice and misconduct to the lowest division” (Morgan 10). This idea also applies in to the abolition of slavery several years after it had become intergraded into society. The immediate removal of slavery would lead to an extreme rise of, “landless poor” (Morgan 12) ultimately dragging down all of the colonies. In addition, the relinquishment of slavery would make it impossible for plantation owners to grow, harvest, and distribute their product efficiently and