It is also deserving of remark, that the two journals which have made this atrocious threat were published, not among the rude borderers of our frontier settlements, but in the populous cities of Charleston and New-Orleans, the very centres of Southern refinement.
Tappan criticizes the refinement of Southern cities while they simultaneously harbor violent threats against abolitionists, revealing hypocrisy in their culture.
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Slavery is maintained by you whom it impoverishes and degrades, not by those upon whom it confers wealth and influence.
You have lamentable experience, that such is not the case where slaveholders bear rule.
We might as well talk of poor men owning herds of cattle and studs of horses, as gangs of negroes.
The slaveholders form a powerful landed aristocracy, banded together for the preservation of their own privileges, and ever endeavoring, for obvious reasons, to identify their private interests with the public welfare.