Lewis Tappan: “What are the essential principles of democracy as distinguished from republicanism?”

Hence the insane efforts constantly made to expurgate the literature of the world of all recognition of the rights of black men.

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

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.

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.