On the record
Indeed, it is obvious to any person attentive to the movements of the South, that the slaveholders dread domestic far more than foreign interference with their darling system.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “Indeed, it is obvious to any person attentive to the movements of the South, that the slaveholders dread domestic far…”
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Tappan points out the fear slaveholders have of internal dissent more than external threats.
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We surely need not detain you with farther details on this head, to convince you what an enormous sacrifice of happiness and prosperity you are offering on the altar of slavery.
If we turn to the new States, we find that slavery and freedom have the same influence on population as in the old.
It is also a matter of notoriety, that the price of slaves has been and still is such as to confine their possession almost exclusively to the rich.
Or the People--for they will be THE PEOPLE--may resolve to be free, and you and all you hold dear may be sacrificed in the contest.