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But while the white population of the South will be thus diminished, its number of slaves will be increased by the addition of the stock from the breeding States.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “But while the white population of the South will be thus diminished, its number of slaves will be increased by the…”
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Tappan highlights that while the white population may decrease, the number of enslaved individuals will continue to grow due to breeding states.
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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.
Hence multitudes will be without regular and profitable employment, and be condemned to poverty and numberless privations.
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.