Lewis Tappan: “And what, fellow-citizens, will be the condition of such of you as shall then remain in the slave States?”

Slavery moreover is monopolizing in its tendency, and leads to the accumulation of property in few hands.

In both instances the increase has been chiefly owing to immigration; but the ratio shows the influence of slavery in retarding immigration.

You both know and feel that slavery has rendered labor disgraceful among you; and where this is the case, industry is necessarily discouraged.

The clog that has stayed the march of her people, the incubus that has weighed down her enterprise, strangled her commerce, kept sealed her exhaustless fountains of mineral wealth, and paralyzed her arts, manufactures and improvement, is…