Lewis Tappan: “We indulge in no idle declamation, but speak the words of truth and soberness.”

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

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.

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

Statesmen may differ about policy, or the means to be employed in the promotion of the public good, but surely they ought to be agreed as to what prosperity means.