Lewis Tappan: “If such free negro or mulatto returns to the State, he is to be imprisoned for FIVE years.”

Cotton is the product of slave labor, and its profits at home are confined almost exclusively to the slaveholders.

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

Hence with them slavery is the INSTITUTION of the SOUTH, while it is in fact the institution of only a portion of the people of the south.

Once establish a FREE PRESS, and the fate of slavery is sealed.