And is it possible that the literary and religious destitution you are suffering, together with the vicious habits of your colored population, should have no effect on the moral character of the whites?
Tappan questions the impact of social conditions on the moral character of white individuals in the South.
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But we have some official confessions, which give a still more deplorable account of Southern ignorance.
Statesmen may differ about policy, or the means to be employed in the promotion of the public good, but surely they ought to be agreed as to what prosperity means.
They are the nobility of the south, and they find it expedient to forget that there are any commoners.
Hence with them slavery is the INSTITUTION of the SOUTH, while it is in fact the institution of only a portion of the people of the south.