On the record
There is reason to believe that these executions are not of rare occurrence, and that many of them, either through indifference or policy, are not noticed in the Southern papers.
Said by
Lewis Tappan
Source
gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “There is reason to believe that these executions are not of rare occurrence, and that many of them, either through…”
Editor's note · Context
Tappan highlights the troubling frequency of executions that go unreported in Southern newspapers, emphasizing a culture of indifference.
Share
More from Lewis Tappan
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.
It has been the policy of the slaveholders to keep entirely out of sight their own numerical inferiority, and to speak and act as if their interests were those of the whole community.
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.
They are the nobility of the south, and they find it expedient to forget that there are any commoners.