On the record
The action of the Federal Government is, we know, controlled by the slave interest; and what testimony does that action bear to the military weakness of the South?
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan critiques the influence of the slave interest on the actions of the Federal Government and its implications for Southern military strength.
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Cotton is the product of slave labor, and its profits at home are confined almost exclusively to the slaveholders.
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.
But what a commentary on slavery and slaveholders is afforded by the gross ignorance prevailing in the old States of South Carolina, Virginia, and North Carolina!
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.