Lewis Tappan: “The committee condemned him TO BE HANGED IN AN HOUR AFTER SENTENCE.”

The power of the slaveholders, as we have already showed you, depends on the acquiescence of the major part of the white inhabitants in their domination.

When an infant will bring one hundred, and a man from four hundred to a thousand dollars in the market, slaves are not commodities to be found in the cabins of the poor.

They are the nobility of the south, and they find it expedient to forget that there are any commoners.

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