On the record
In both instances the increase has been chiefly owing to immigration; but the ratio shows the influence of slavery in retarding immigration.
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan discusses how immigration is influenced by slavery's presence in the states.
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Up--quit yourselves like men: and may Almighty God direct and bless your efforts!
The institution which oppresses you is suffering from the decrepitude of age, and is the scorn and loathing of the world.
Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?
Do you ask that your children may be rescued from the ignorance and irreligion to which they are now doomed, and that avenues may be opened for you and for them to honest and profitable employment?