Men who can enjoy the sight of negroes writhing in flames, and are permitted by the civil authorities to indulge in such exhibitions, will not be very scrupulous in taking the lives of each other.
Tappan condemns the moral decay of a society that allows public spectacles of violence against enslaved people, suggesting a broader societal issue.
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The influence of slavery on population is strikingly illustrated by a comparison between Kentucky and Ohio.
Slavery moreover is monopolizing in its tendency, and leads to the accumulation of property in few hands.
Hence the insane efforts constantly made to expurgate the literature of the world of all recognition of the rights of black men.
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.