Surely, surely, if the South be wanting in every element of prosperity--if ignorance, barbarity and poverty be her characteristics, it is not because she has not exercised her due influence in the general government, or received her share of its honors and emoluments.
Tappan argues that the South's lack of prosperity is not due to a lack of political influence or government support, but rather deeper issues.
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It has been the policy of the slaveholders to keep entirely out of sight their own numerical inferiority, and to speak and act as if their interests were those of the whole community.
We ask your attention to the injuries inflicted upon you and your children, by an institution which lives by your sufferance, and will die at your mandate.
Slavery moreover is monopolizing in its tendency, and leads to the accumulation of property in few hands.
If we are permitted to apply this rule in testing the moral condition of the South, the result will not be favorable.