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The capitalists north of Mason and Dixon's line, have precisely the same interest in the labor of the country, that the capitalists of England have in their labor.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “The capitalists north of Mason and Dixon's line, have precisely the same interest in the labor of the country, that the…”
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Tappan compares the interests of Northern capitalists in labor to those of English capitalists, highlighting economic parallels.
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It cannot be, therefore, the interest or the inclination of the sagacious and reflecting among them, to promote the intellectual improvement of the inferior class.
If we turn to the new States, we find that slavery and freedom have the same influence on population as in the old.
But what a commentary on slavery and slaveholders is afforded by the gross ignorance prevailing in the old States of South Carolina, Virginia, and North Carolina!
When an infant will bring one hundred, and a man from four hundred to a thousand dollars in the market, slaves are not commodities to be found in the cabins of the poor.