Lewis Tappan: “In a country where suffrage is universal, the representatives will but reflect the general character of their…”

Once establish a FREE PRESS, and the fate of slavery is sealed.

When an infant will bring one hundred, and a man from four hundred to a thousand dollars in the market, slaves are not commodities to be found in the cabins of the poor.

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.

But we have some official confessions, which give a still more deplorable account of Southern ignorance.