Lewis Tappan: “Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.”

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

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 surely need not detain you with farther details on this head, to convince you what an enormous sacrifice of happiness and prosperity you are offering on the altar of slavery.

You are told, much of the wealth is invested in negroes--yet it obviously is a wealth that impoverishes; and no stronger evidence of the truth of this assertion is needed, than the comparative price of land in the free and slave States.