Here we have a record of no less than TEN men, five black and five white, probably all innocent of the crime alleged against them, deliberately and publicly put to death by the slaveholders, without the shadow of legal authority.
Tappan condemns the execution of ten men, emphasizing the lack of legal authority in their deaths.
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In both instances the increase has been chiefly owing to immigration; but the ratio shows the influence of slavery in retarding immigration.
It has been the policy of the slaveholders to keep entirely out of sight their own numerical inferiority, and to speak and act as if their interests were those of the whole community.
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