Lewis Tappan: “Christianity, by controlling the malignant passions of our nature, and exciting its benevolent affections, gives a…”

Has it ever happened that the mass of any people were rich enough to keep, for their own convenience, such expensive laborers--as southern slaves?

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

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.

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.