Lewis Tappan: “The very idea of an armed negro startles their fearful imaginations.”

Has it ever happened that the mass of any people were rich enough to keep, for their own convenience, such expensive laborers--as southern slaves?

Hence multitudes will be without regular and profitable employment, and be condemned to poverty and numberless privations.

If we turn to the new States, we find that slavery and freedom have the same influence on population as in the old.

Education elevates the inferior classes of society, teaches them their rights, and points out the means of enforcing them.