Lewis Tappan: “Where these offices are performed by members of the political community, a DANGEROUS ELEMENT is obviously introduced…”

Slavery moreover is monopolizing in its tendency, and leads to the accumulation of property in few hands.

The clog that has stayed the march of her people, the incubus that has weighed down her enterprise, strangled her commerce, kept sealed her exhaustless fountains of mineral wealth, and paralyzed her arts, manufactures and improvement, is…

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

No other cause can be assigned than slavery, which drives from your borders many of the virtuous and enterprising, and at the same time deters emigrants from other States and from foreign countries from settling among you.