Lewis Tappan: “DEATH BY VIOLENCE.--The moral atmosphere in our State appears to be in a deleterious and sanguinary condition.”

We might as well talk of poor men owning herds of cattle and studs of horses, as gangs of negroes.

In a community so unenlightened as yours, it is a matter of course, that the arts and sciences must languish, and the industry and enterprise of the country be oppressed by a general torpor.

There is not a State or Territory in the Union in which you, fellow-citizens, have not an overwhelming majority over the slaveholders; and the majority is probably the greatest in those in which the slaves are the most numerous, because in…

You have lamentable experience, that such is not the case where slaveholders bear rule.