Lewis Tappan: “No man thinks of anything beyond the present moment.”

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

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?

Education elevates the inferior classes of society, teaches them their rights, and points out the means of enforcing them.

But we have some official confessions, which give a still more deplorable account of Southern ignorance.