Lewis Tappan: “Truly indeed have the slaveholders rendered the Constitution a blurred, obliterated, and tattered parchment.”

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

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…

Education elevates the inferior classes of society, teaches them their rights, and points out the means of enforcing them.

Or the People--for they will be THE PEOPLE--may resolve to be free, and you and all you hold dear may be sacrificed in the contest.