In the first place, the slave States cannot pretend that they have not received their full share of the national domain, and that the narrowness of their territorial limits have retarded the development of their enterprise and resources.
Tappan argues that slave states have received their fair share of land, countering claims of disadvantage.
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We know that this result is so startling and unexpected, that you will scarcely credit the testimony of figures themselves.
We might as well talk of poor men owning herds of cattle and studs of horses, as gangs of negroes.
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.
When an infant will bring one hundred, and a man from four hundred to a thousand dollars in the market, slaves are not commodities to be found in the cabins of the poor.