Lewis Tappan: “Once establish a FREE PRESS, and the fate of slavery is sealed.”

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.

Education elevates the inferior classes of society, teaches them their rights, and points out the means of enforcing them.

The very advertisements in your newspapers show that, for a vast proportion of the comforts and conveniences of life, you are dependent on Northern manufacturers and mechanics.

Or the People--for they will be THE PEOPLE--may resolve to be free, and you and all you hold dear may be sacrificed in the contest.