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It is with pain we are compelled to add, that the conduct and avowed sentiments of the Southern clergy in relation to Slavery, necessarily exert an unhappy influence.
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan expresses concern about the influence of Southern clergy on public sentiment regarding slavery, suggesting it is detrimental.
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You both know and feel that slavery has rendered labor disgraceful among you; and where this is the case, industry is necessarily discouraged.
The slaveholders form a powerful landed aristocracy, banded together for the preservation of their own privileges, and ever endeavoring, for obvious reasons, to identify their private interests with the public welfare.
If we turn to the new States, we find that slavery and freedom have the same influence on population as in the old.
It, is however, worthy of remark, that its cultivation affords a livelihood to only a small proportion of the free inhabitants; and scarcely to any of those we are now addressing.