Lewis Tappan: “Slavery is maintained by you whom it impoverishes and degrades, not by those upon whom it confers wealth and influence.”

But we have some official confessions, which give a still more deplorable account of Southern ignorance.

It is so commonly taken for granted, that every white man at the South is a slaveholder, that many will doubtingly inquire, where are these non-slaveholding citizens to be found?

We might as well talk of poor men owning herds of cattle and studs of horses, as gangs of negroes.

It cannot be, therefore, the interest or the inclination of the sagacious and reflecting among them, to promote the intellectual improvement of the inferior class.