Lewis Tappan: “You have lamentable experience, that such is not the case where slaveholders bear rule.”

You are moreover aware that the great capitalists of the South have their wealth chiefly invested in plantations and slaves, and not as with us in commerce and manufactures.

Cotton is the product of slave labor, and its profits at home are confined almost exclusively to the slaveholders.

The influence of slavery on population is strikingly illustrated by a comparison between Kentucky and Ohio.

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…