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The different light in which labor is viewed at the North and the South is one cause of the depression of industry in the latter.
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan highlights the differing perceptions of labor between the North and South as a factor in economic struggles in the South.
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The influence of slavery on population is strikingly illustrated by a comparison between Kentucky and Ohio.
It, is however, worthy of remark, that its cultivation affords a livelihood to only a small proportion of the free inhabitants; and scarcely to any of those we are now addressing.
If we are permitted to apply this rule in testing the moral condition of the South, the result will not be favorable.
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.