Lewis Tappan: “The causes which now retard the increase of your population must continue to operate, so long as slavery lasts.”

The influence of slavery on population is strikingly illustrated by a comparison between Kentucky and Ohio.

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

If we are permitted to apply this rule in testing the moral condition of the South, the result will not be favorable.

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?