Lewis Tappan: “Hence no poor man is deterred from seeking a livelihood by honest…”

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Hence no poor man is deterred from seeking a livelihood by honest labor from a dread of personal degradation.

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Lewis Tappan

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Tappan asserts that in a society free from the stigma of slavery, poor individuals are not deterred from honest work.

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Education elevates the inferior classes of society, teaches them their rights, and points out the means of enforcing them.

Cotton is the product of slave labor, and its profits at home are confined almost exclusively to the slaveholders.

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.

You have lamentable experience, that such is not the case where slaveholders bear rule.

Lewis Tappan: “Hence no poor man is deterred from seeking a livelihood by honest labor from a dread of personal degradation.”