We have said that the slaveholders hold their own laws and Constitutions in the same contempt as those of the Federal Government, whenever they conflict with the security and permanency of slavery.
Tappan asserts that slaveholders disregard both their own laws and federal laws when they conflict with their interests in maintaining slavery.
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Slavery moreover is monopolizing in its tendency, and leads to the accumulation of property in few hands.
We know that this result is so startling and unexpected, that you will scarcely credit the testimony of figures themselves.
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