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But perhaps the most insolent attempt yet made to pervert the Federal Constitution to the support of slavery, was the expedient devised in Alabama to muzzle the Northern press.
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan criticizes a specific attempt in Alabama to suppress anti-slavery sentiment through manipulation of the Constitution.
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We might as well talk of poor men owning herds of cattle and studs of horses, as gangs of negroes.
It cannot be, therefore, the interest or the inclination of the sagacious and reflecting among them, to promote the intellectual improvement of the inferior class.
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.
The influence of slavery on population is strikingly illustrated by a comparison between Kentucky and Ohio.