The legislature, however, forthwith passed a law, offering a bribe of $5000 to any person who would arrest and bring to trial and conviction, in Georgia, the editor and publisher of the Boston paper.
Tappan describes a law passed by the Georgia legislature that incentivizes the capture of abolitionist editors, illustrating the lengths to which pro-slavery forces would go.
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But we have some official confessions, which give a still more deplorable account of Southern ignorance.
The very advertisements in your newspapers show that, for a vast proportion of the comforts and conveniences of life, you are dependent on Northern manufacturers and mechanics.
Slavery moreover is monopolizing in its tendency, and leads to the accumulation of property in few hands.
But what a commentary on slavery and slaveholders is afforded by the gross ignorance prevailing in the old States of South Carolina, Virginia, and North Carolina!