Lewis Tappan: “The first consists in the dogma, so portentous to us, of the natural equality and unalienable right to liberty of every…”

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.

We ask your attention to the injuries inflicted upon you and your children, by an institution which lives by your sufferance, and will die at your mandate.

They are the nobility of the south, and they find it expedient to forget that there are any commoners.

The power of the slaveholders, as we have already showed you, depends on the acquiescence of the major part of the white inhabitants in their domination.