Lewis Tappan: “The first consists in the dogma, so portentous to us, of the natural equality and unalienable right to liberty of every…”

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

Hence multitudes will be without regular and profitable employment, and be condemned to poverty and numberless privations.

The very advertisements in your newspapers show that, for a vast proportion of the comforts and conveniences of life, you are dependent on Northern manufacturers and mechanics.

The slaveholders form a powerful landed aristocracy, banded together for the preservation of their own privileges, and ever endeavoring, for obvious reasons, to identify their private interests with the public welfare.