On the record
Remember the assertion of the editor of the Missouri Argus: "Abolition editors in the slave States will not dare to avow their opinions: it would be INSTANT DEATH to them.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “Remember the assertion of the editor of the Missouri Argus: "Abolition editors in the slave States will not dare to avow…”
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Tappan quotes an editor to illustrate the extreme dangers faced by abolitionist writers in slave states.
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We might as well talk of poor men owning herds of cattle and studs of horses, as gangs of negroes.
We surely need not detain you with farther details on this head, to convince you what an enormous sacrifice of happiness and prosperity you are offering on the altar of slavery.
The influence of slavery on population is strikingly illustrated by a comparison between Kentucky and Ohio.
It, is however, worthy of remark, that its cultivation affords a livelihood to only a small proportion of the free inhabitants; and scarcely to any of those we are now addressing.