Lewis Tappan: “Abolition editors in slave States will not dare to avow their opinions.”

Slavery moreover is monopolizing in its tendency, and leads to the accumulation of property in few hands.

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…

If we turn to the new States, we find that slavery and freedom have the same influence on population as in the old.

Or the People--for they will be THE PEOPLE--may resolve to be free, and you and all you hold dear may be sacrificed in the contest.