Lewis Tappan: “In both instances the increase has been chiefly owing to immigration; but the ratio shows the influence of slavery in…”

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

We ask your attention to the injuries inflicted upon you and your children, by an institution which lives by your sufferance, and will die at your mandate.

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.

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