Lewis Tappan: “We charge the slaveholding community, as such, with sanctioning murder, and protecting the perpetrators, and setting the…”

It is also a matter of notoriety, that the price of slaves has been and still is such as to confine their possession almost exclusively to the rich.

If we turn to the new States, we find that slavery and freedom have the same influence on population as in the old.

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

Statesmen may differ about policy, or the means to be employed in the promotion of the public good, but surely they ought to be agreed as to what prosperity means.