Lewis Tappan: “In some of the slave States laws have been passed establishing a…”

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In some of the slave States laws have been passed establishing a censorship of the press, for the exclusive and special benefit of the slaveholders.

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Lewis Tappan

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Tappan discusses the legal measures taken to ensure that the press serves the interests of slaveholders exclusively.

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Cotton is the product of slave labor, and its profits at home are confined almost exclusively to the slaveholders.

Slavery is maintained by you whom it impoverishes and degrades, not by those upon whom it confers wealth and influence.

In both instances the increase has been chiefly owing to immigration; but the ratio shows the influence of slavery in retarding immigration.

It is also a matter of notoriety, that the price of slaves has been and still is such as to confine their possession almost exclusively to the rich.

Lewis Tappan: “In some of the slave States laws have been passed establishing a censorship of the press, for the exclusive and special…”