Lewis Tappan: “By abolishing slavery you will become the architects of your own fortune, and of your country's greatness.”

It, is however, worthy of remark, that its cultivation affords a livelihood to only a small proportion of the free inhabitants; and scarcely to any of those we are now addressing.

But we have some official confessions, which give a still more deplorable account of Southern ignorance.

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.

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