Lewis Tappan: “Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.”

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

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…

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.

It is so commonly taken for granted, that every white man at the South is a slaveholder, that many will doubtingly inquire, where are these non-slaveholding citizens to be found?