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We know that this result is so startling and unexpected, that you will scarcely credit the testimony of figures themselves.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “We know that this result is so startling and unexpected, that you will scarcely credit the testimony of figures…”
Editor's note · Context
Here, Tappan expresses skepticism about the acceptance of statistical evidence regarding slavery, suggesting that the findings may be hard for some to believe.
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The very advertisements in your newspapers show that, for a vast proportion of the comforts and conveniences of life, you are dependent on Northern manufacturers and mechanics.
Hence with them slavery is the INSTITUTION of the SOUTH, while it is in fact the institution of only a portion of the people of the south.
You are told, much of the wealth is invested in negroes--yet it obviously is a wealth that impoverishes; and no stronger evidence of the truth of this assertion is needed, than the comparative price of land in the free and slave States.
In a community so unenlightened as yours, it is a matter of course, that the arts and sciences must languish, and the industry and enterprise of the country be oppressed by a general torpor.