We think we have fully proved our assertion respecting the disregard of human life felt by the slaveholding community; and of course their contempt for those legal barriers which are erected for its protection.
Tappan critiques the moral implications of slaveholders' disregard for human life and legal protections.
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You have lamentable experience, that such is not the case where slaveholders bear rule.
When an infant will bring one hundred, and a man from four hundred to a thousand dollars in the market, slaves are not commodities to be found in the cabins of the poor.
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.
They are the nobility of the south, and they find it expedient to forget that there are any commoners.