By law, midshipmen and cadets, at West Point, are appointed according to the Federal ratio; thus have the slaveholders secured to themselves an additional number of officers in the Army and Navy, on account of their slaves.
Tappan highlights how the appointment of military cadets is skewed in favor of slaveholders, benefiting them in military ranks.
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Up--quit yourselves like men: and may Almighty God direct and bless your efforts!
In the place of your present contempt, and degradation, and misery, honor, and wealth, and happiness court your acceptance.
Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?
He is terrified by the echo of his own threats, and the very proposal to dissolve the Union and leave him to his fate, throws him into paroxysms.