When compelled to acknowledge the superior prosperity of the free States, the slaveholders are fond of imputing the difference to tariffs, or to government patronage, or to any other than the true cause.
Tappan addresses the excuses slaveholders make for their economic struggles, attributing them to slavery rather than external factors.
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But we have some official confessions, which give a still more deplorable account of Southern ignorance.
We surely need not detain you with farther details on this head, to convince you what an enormous sacrifice of happiness and prosperity you are offering on the altar of slavery.
We know that this result is so startling and unexpected, that you will scarcely credit the testimony of figures themselves.
The power of the slaveholders, as we have already showed you, depends on the acquiescence of the major part of the white inhabitants in their domination.