It is impossible with us, that the conflict can take place between labor and capital, which makes it so difficult to establish and maintain free institutions in all wealthy and highly civilized nations where such institutions do not exist.
Tappan argues that domestic slavery prevents the conflict between labor and capital seen in other nations.
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Hence multitudes will be without regular and profitable employment, and be condemned to poverty and numberless privations.
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.
Education elevates the inferior classes of society, teaches them their rights, and points out the means of enforcing them.
In both instances the increase has been chiefly owing to immigration; but the ratio shows the influence of slavery in retarding immigration.