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.
Tappan argues that slavery is a primary factor driving away virtuous individuals and deterring new settlers in the South.
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Hence the insane efforts constantly made to expurgate the literature of the world of all recognition of the rights of black men.
In a community so unenlightened as yours, it is a matter of course, that the arts and sciences must languish, and the industry and enterprise of the country be oppressed by a general torpor.
Slavery moreover is monopolizing in its tendency, and leads to the accumulation of property in few hands.
They are the nobility of the south, and they find it expedient to forget that there are any commoners.