Atrocities occur in the best regulated and most virtuous States, but in such they excite indignation and are visited with punishment; while in vicious communities they are treated with levity and impunity.
Tappan observes that while atrocities occur everywhere, their treatment varies significantly based on societal norms.
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No other cause can be assigned than slavery, which drives from your borders many of the virtuous and enterprising, and at the same time deters emigrants from other States and from foreign countries from settling among you.
Slavery is maintained by you whom it impoverishes and degrades, not by those upon whom it confers wealth and influence.
Once establish a FREE PRESS, and the fate of slavery is sealed.
The very advertisements in your newspapers show that, for a vast proportion of the comforts and conveniences of life, you are dependent on Northern manufacturers and mechanics.