Lewis Tappan: “Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.”

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?

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

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.

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