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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In the place of your present contempt, and degradation, and misery, honor, and wealth, and happiness court your acceptance.
You will be cheered by the approbation of your own consciences, and by the plaudits of mankind.
Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?
If you admit the greatest happiness of the greatest number to be the true test of national prosperity, then, beyond all controversy, the British West Indies are now infinitely more prosperous than at any previous period of their history.