Lewis Tappan: “Hence no poor man is deterred from seeking a livelihood by honest…”

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Hence no poor man is deterred from seeking a livelihood by honest labor from a dread of personal degradation.

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Lewis Tappan

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Tappan asserts that in a society free from the stigma of slavery, poor individuals are not deterred from honest work.

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The institution which oppresses you is suffering from the decrepitude of age, and is the scorn and loathing of the world.

Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.

You will be cheered by the approbation of your own consciences, and by the plaudits of mankind.

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.

Lewis Tappan: “Hence no poor man is deterred from seeking a livelihood by honest labor from a dread of personal degradation.”