Think you that the majority of the PEOPLE in the cotton States, cheered and encouraged as they will be by the sympathy of the world, and the example of the West Indies, will forever tamely submit to be beasts of burden for a few lordly planters?
Tappan expresses his belief that the majority of people in the cotton states will not passively accept their subjugation by a few wealthy planters.
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