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Another cause is the ever-wakeful jealousy of your aristocracy.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “Another cause is the ever-wakeful jealousy of your aristocracy.”
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Tappan points out the jealousy of the Southern aristocracy as a contributing factor to the region's economic issues.
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Hence with them slavery is the INSTITUTION of the SOUTH, while it is in fact the institution of only a portion of the people of the south.
You are moreover aware that the great capitalists of the South have their wealth chiefly invested in plantations and slaves, and not as with us in commerce and manufactures.
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.