Lewis Tappan: “Now, we ask what must be the state of society, where the public journals thus justify and stimulate the public thirst…”

Slavery moreover is monopolizing in its tendency, and leads to the accumulation of property in few hands.

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.

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

The clog that has stayed the march of her people, the incubus that has weighed down her enterprise, strangled her commerce, kept sealed her exhaustless fountains of mineral wealth, and paralyzed her arts, manufactures and improvement, is…