Lewis Tappan: “Here, again, is a threat directed against any of you, who may happen to have the command of types and printer's ink.”

You have lamentable experience, that such is not the case where slaveholders bear rule.

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

We might as well talk of poor men owning herds of cattle and studs of horses, as gangs of negroes.

In a community so unenlightened as yours, it is a matter of course, that the arts and sciences must languish, and the industry and enterprise of the country be oppressed by a general torpor.