Lewis Tappan: “Thus we see that burning negroes alive is treated as a spectacle, and strangers are invited to witness it.”

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

It cannot be, therefore, the interest or the inclination of the sagacious and reflecting among them, to promote the intellectual improvement of the inferior class.

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.

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.