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But while the white population of the South will be thus diminished, its number of slaves will be increased by the addition of the stock from the breeding States.
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan highlights that while the white population may decrease, the number of enslaved individuals will continue to grow due to breeding states.
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You are moreover aware that the great capitalists of the South have their wealth chiefly invested in plantations and slaves, and not as with us in commerce and manufactures.
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.
But we have some official confessions, which give a still more deplorable account of Southern ignorance.
Slavery moreover is monopolizing in its tendency, and leads to the accumulation of property in few hands.