Lewis Tappan: “If LABORERS ever obtain the political power of a country, it is in fact in a state of REVOLUTION.”

The clog that has stayed the march of her people, the incubus that has weighed down her enterprise, strangled her commerce, kept sealed her exhaustless fountains of mineral wealth, and paralyzed her arts, manufactures and improvement, is…

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

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.

If we turn to the new States, we find that slavery and freedom have the same influence on population as in the old.