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The very idea of trial is scouted, and the mob, or rather the slaveholders themselves, are acknowledged to be the arbiters of life and death.
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan criticizes the lack of justice and the mob rule prevalent in Southern society.
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Slavery is maintained by you whom it impoverishes and degrades, not by those upon whom it confers wealth and influence.
The influence of slavery on population is strikingly illustrated by a comparison between Kentucky and Ohio.
We ask your attention to the injuries inflicted upon you and your children, by an institution which lives by your sufferance, and will die at your mandate.
No other cause can be assigned than slavery, which drives from your borders many of the virtuous and enterprising, and at the same time deters emigrants from other States and from foreign countries from settling among you.