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It is with pain we are compelled to add, that the conduct and avowed sentiments of the Southern clergy in relation to Slavery, necessarily exert an unhappy influence.
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan expresses concern about the influence of Southern clergy on public sentiment regarding slavery, suggesting it is detrimental.
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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 influence of slavery on population is strikingly illustrated by a comparison between Kentucky and Ohio.
Statesmen may differ about policy, or the means to be employed in the promotion of the public good, but surely they ought to be agreed as to what prosperity means.
Or the People--for they will be THE PEOPLE--may resolve to be free, and you and all you hold dear may be sacrificed in the contest.