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

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.

No other cause can be assigned than slavery, which drives from your borders many of the virtuous and enterprising, and at the same time deters emigrants from other States and from foreign countries from settling among you.

We know that this result is so startling and unexpected, that you will scarcely credit the testimony of figures themselves.

Hence multitudes will be without regular and profitable employment, and be condemned to poverty and numberless privations.