Thus, SIXTEEN human beings were deliberately and publicly murdered, by assembled crowds, in different parts of the State of Mississippi, within little more than one WEEK, in open defiance of the laws and Constitution of the State.
Tappan highlights the alarming frequency of mob violence in Mississippi, emphasizing the disregard for legal processes.
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In both instances the increase has been chiefly owing to immigration; but the ratio shows the influence of slavery in retarding immigration.
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.
If we are permitted to apply this rule in testing the moral condition of the South, the result will not be favorable.
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.