Lewis Tappan: “The influence of slavery on population is strikingly illustrated by a comparison between Kentucky and Ohio.”

We know that this result is so startling and unexpected, that you will scarcely credit the testimony of figures themselves.

You are told, much of the wealth is invested in negroes--yet it obviously is a wealth that impoverishes; and no stronger evidence of the truth of this assertion is needed, than the comparative price of land in the free and slave States.

But what a commentary on slavery and slaveholders is afforded by the gross ignorance prevailing in the old States of South Carolina, Virginia, and North Carolina!

The power of the slaveholders, as we have already showed you, depends on the acquiescence of the major part of the white inhabitants in their domination.