And think you that men, thus in awe of their own dependents, shuddering at a musket in the hands of a black, and with a population of two millions and a half of these dreaded slaves, will expose themselves to the tremendous consequences of a union between their domestic and foreign enemies?
Tappan reflects on the fears of slaveholders regarding potential uprisings and the consequences of a united enemy.
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In both instances the increase has been chiefly owing to immigration; but the ratio shows the influence of slavery in retarding immigration.
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!
Education elevates the inferior classes of society, teaches them their rights, and points out the means of enforcing them.
You are told, much of the wealth is invested in negroes--yet it obviously is a wealth that impoverishes; and no stronger evidence of the truth of this assertion is needed, than the comparative price of land in the free and slave States.