It is ruinous to the whites; retards improvement; roots out an industrious population; banishes the yeomanry of the country; deprives the spinner, the weaver, the smith, the shoemaker, the carpenter, of employment and support.
Tompkins describes the detrimental effects of slavery on the white population and the economy.
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Have we not reason to suspect that too many of our countrymen have ceased to be virtuous?
They would be scourged, driven by violence from the State, and might be considered fortunate should they escape with their lives.
I know it is claimed, by men in the slave States, that slavery is necessary to the highest development of human society; but I think the experience of members of Congress is, that slavery does not always produce this beneficial result.
Calumny and vituperation held high carnival in the legislative halls of this great nation.
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