Its cloven hoof has ascended the pulpits of the churches--professors of colleges teach it as a lesson of morals--ministers of the Gospel seek and profess to find sanctions for it in the Word of God.
Tappan condemns the infiltration of pro-slavery ideology into educational and religious institutions, indicating a moral crisis.
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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.
Once establish a FREE PRESS, and the fate of slavery is sealed.
It has been the policy of the slaveholders to keep entirely out of sight their own numerical inferiority, and to speak and act as if their interests were those of the whole community.
But we have some official confessions, which give a still more deplorable account of Southern ignorance.