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 such they are chiefly concentrated on large plantations.
Tappan asserts that non-slaveholders constitute a majority in every state, challenging the narrative that slaveholders represent the interests of the entire community.
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You have lamentable experience, that such is not the case where slaveholders bear rule.
When an infant will bring one hundred, and a man from four hundred to a thousand dollars in the market, slaves are not commodities to be found in the cabins of the poor.
Once establish a FREE PRESS, and the fate of slavery is sealed.
Or the People--for they will be THE PEOPLE--may resolve to be free, and you and all you hold dear may be sacrificed in the contest.