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But perhaps the most insolent attempt yet made to pervert the Federal Constitution to the support of slavery, was the expedient devised in Alabama to muzzle the Northern press.
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan criticizes a specific attempt in Alabama to suppress anti-slavery sentiment through manipulation of the Constitution.
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When an infant will bring one hundred, and a man from four hundred to a thousand dollars in the market, slaves are not commodities to be found in the cabins of the poor.
Slavery is maintained by you whom it impoverishes and degrades, not by those upon whom it confers wealth and influence.
We know that this result is so startling and unexpected, that you will scarcely credit the testimony of figures themselves.
They are the nobility of the south, and they find it expedient to forget that there are any commoners.