Lewis Tappan: “So far as the MERE LABORER has the pride, the knowledge, or the aspiration of a freeman, he is unfitted for his…”

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.

The slaveholders form a powerful landed aristocracy, banded together for the preservation of their own privileges, and ever endeavoring, for obvious reasons, to identify their private interests with the public welfare.

Hence the insane efforts constantly made to expurgate the literature of the world of all recognition of the rights of black men.

In both instances the increase has been chiefly owing to immigration; but the ratio shows the influence of slavery in retarding immigration.