We think we have fully proved our assertion respecting the disregard of human life felt by the slaveholding community; and of course their contempt for those legal barriers which are erected for its protection.
Tappan critiques the moral implications of slaveholders' disregard for human life and legal protections.
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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.
Slavery is maintained by you whom it impoverishes and degrades, not by those upon whom it confers wealth and influence.
Hence the insane efforts constantly made to expurgate the literature of the world of all recognition of the rights of black men.
Hence multitudes will be without regular and profitable employment, and be condemned to poverty and numberless privations.