Lewis Tappan: “Visions of emancipation, of agrarianism, and of popular resistance to their authority, are ever floating in their…”

You have lamentable experience, that such is not the case where slaveholders bear rule.

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.

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.

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