Lewis Tappan: “In breaking the chains which bind the slave, be assured you will be delivering yourselves from a grievous thraldom.”

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

It, is however, worthy of remark, that its cultivation affords a livelihood to only a small proportion of the free inhabitants; and scarcely to any of those we are now addressing.

Statesmen may differ about policy, or the means to be employed in the promotion of the public good, but surely they ought to be agreed as to what prosperity means.

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