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It cannot be, therefore, the interest or the inclination of the sagacious and reflecting among them, to promote the intellectual improvement of the inferior class.
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan suggests that the interests of the educated elite do not align with promoting the intellectual growth of the lower classes.
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Once establish a FREE PRESS, and the fate of slavery is sealed.
The very advertisements in your newspapers show that, for a vast proportion of the comforts and conveniences of life, you are dependent on Northern manufacturers and mechanics.
Slavery moreover is monopolizing in its tendency, and leads to the accumulation of property in few hands.
You both know and feel that slavery has rendered labor disgraceful among you; and where this is the case, industry is necessarily discouraged.