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Surely, fellow-citizens, you will not accuse us of slander, when we say that the slaveholders have abolished among you the liberty of the press.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “Surely, fellow-citizens, you will not accuse us of slander, when we say that the slaveholders have abolished among you…”
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Tappan asserts that slaveholders have effectively suppressed freedom of the press in the South.
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Hence multitudes will be without regular and profitable employment, and be condemned to poverty and numberless privations.
Hence with them slavery is the INSTITUTION of the SOUTH, while it is in fact the institution of only a portion of the people of the south.
It cannot be, therefore, the interest or the inclination of the sagacious and reflecting among them, to promote the intellectual improvement of the inferior class.
They are the nobility of the south, and they find it expedient to forget that there are any commoners.