Lewis Tappan: “For our part, WE APPLAUD the transaction, and none in our opinion can condemn it, who have not a secret sympathy with…”

The very advertisements in your newspapers show that, for a vast proportion of the comforts and conveniences of life, you are dependent on Northern manufacturers and mechanics.

There is not a State or Territory in the Union in which you, fellow-citizens, have not an overwhelming majority over the slaveholders; and the majority is probably the greatest in those in which the slaves are the most numerous, because in…

They are the nobility of the south, and they find it expedient to forget that there are any commoners.

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