Lewis Tappan: “Hence the moral difference between the two sections of our republic must arise from other than natural causes.”

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!

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.

Slavery is maintained by you whom it impoverishes and degrades, not by those upon whom it confers wealth and influence.

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?