Lewis Tappan: “It is natural that we should fear those whom we are conscious of having deeply injured, and all history and experience…”

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

You both know and feel that slavery has rendered labor disgraceful among you; and where this is the case, industry is necessarily discouraged.

There is not a State or Territory in the Union in which you, fellow-citizens, have not an overwhelming majority over the slaveholders; and the majority is probably the greatest in those in which the slaves are the most numerous, because in…

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.