We hazard little in the assertion, that in no civilized Christian community on earth is human life less protected by law, or more frequently taken with impunity, than in the slave States of the Federal Union.
Tappan claims that the legal protection of human life is severely lacking in slave states, emphasizing the dangers of slavery.
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You both know and feel that slavery has rendered labor disgraceful among you; and where this is the case, industry is necessarily discouraged.
They are the nobility of the south, and they find it expedient to forget that there are any commoners.
Has it ever happened that the mass of any people were rich enough to keep, for their own convenience, such expensive laborers--as southern slaves?
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.