Hence the alarming tendency to violate the rights of property by agrarian legislation, which is beginning to be manifest in the older States, where UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE prevails without DOMESTIC SLAVERY.
Tappan discusses the risks of agrarian legislation in states with universal suffrage and no slavery.
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