Lewis Tappan: “Let us now inquire more particularly how far slavery is indeed a stable basis, on which free institutions may securely…”

The influence of slavery on population is strikingly illustrated by a comparison between Kentucky and Ohio.

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

It cannot be, therefore, the interest or the inclination of the sagacious and reflecting among them, to promote the intellectual improvement of the inferior class.

Hence multitudes will be without regular and profitable employment, and be condemned to poverty and numberless privations.