Lewis Tappan: “The slaveholders are not strong enough to execute their own sentences, if you resist them.”

When an infant will bring one hundred, and a man from four hundred to a thousand dollars in the market, slaves are not commodities to be found in the cabins of the poor.

You have lamentable experience, that such is not the case where slaveholders bear rule.

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

In a community so unenlightened as yours, it is a matter of course, that the arts and sciences must languish, and the industry and enterprise of the country be oppressed by a general torpor.