The deplorable ignorance and want of industry at the South, together with the disrepute in which honest industry is held, cannot but exercise, in connection with other causes, a most unhappy influence on the morals of the inhabitants.
Tappan discusses the negative impact of slavery on the moral fabric and industriousness of Southern society.
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Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.
By abolishing slavery you will become the architects of your own fortune, and of your country's greatness.
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?
Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?