Lewis Tappan: “If the victims were innocent, no necessity required their murder.”

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

Slavery is maintained by you whom it impoverishes and degrades, not by those upon whom it confers wealth and influence.

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.

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.