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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.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “Hence with them slavery is the INSTITUTION of the SOUTH, while it is in fact the institution of only a portion of the…”
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This statement highlights the perception of slavery as a foundational institution for the South, while Tappan argues it only serves a portion of the population.
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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.
If we turn to the new States, we find that slavery and freedom have the same influence on population as in the old.
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.
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.