Lewis Tappan: “If such free negro or mulatto returns to the State, he is to be imprisoned for FIVE years.”

If you admit the greatest happiness of the greatest number to be the true test of national prosperity, then, beyond all controversy, the British West Indies are now infinitely more prosperous than at any previous period of their history.

He is terrified by the echo of his own threats, and the very proposal to dissolve the Union and leave him to his fate, throws him into paroxysms.

Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.

The institution which oppresses you is suffering from the decrepitude of age, and is the scorn and loathing of the world.