Lewis Tappan: “Why do we hear of stabbings and shootings almost daily in some part or other of our State?”

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.

You both know and feel that slavery has rendered labor disgraceful among you; and where this is the case, industry is necessarily discouraged.

It is so commonly taken for granted, that every white man at the South is a slaveholder, that many will doubtingly inquire, where are these non-slaveholding citizens to be found?