Lewis Tappan: “The very advertisements in your newspapers show that, for a vast proportion of the comforts and conveniences of life…”

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.

If we are permitted to apply this rule in testing the moral condition of the South, the result will not be favorable.

We might as well talk of poor men owning herds of cattle and studs of horses, as gangs of negroes.