By increasing prices, minimizing lay-offs, keeping wage rates at normal levels.
Increased prices would (supposedly) satisfy employees and business owners.
The answer is d) a sense of alienation
According to Albert Barnes, their mistake was that they didn't speak against slavery. Although many of them believed that slavery was against god and against the idea that god made everyone equal, they didn't do much against it out of many reasons, either they thought it was a necessary evil or they were afraid of the public reaction.
