Lewis Tappan: “We have already seen the conduct of the slave-holding community to negro offenders; we are now to notice its tender…”

Slavery is maintained by you whom it impoverishes and degrades, not by those upon whom it confers wealth and influence.

The slaveholders form a powerful landed aristocracy, banded together for the preservation of their own privileges, and ever endeavoring, for obvious reasons, to identify their private interests with the public welfare.

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

You both know and feel that slavery has rendered labor disgraceful among you; and where this is the case, industry is necessarily discouraged.