Lewis Tappan: “This is the second negro who has been thus put to death, without judge or jury in this country.”

Statesmen may differ about policy, or the means to be employed in the promotion of the public good, but surely they ought to be agreed as to what prosperity means.

The very advertisements in your newspapers show that, for a vast proportion of the comforts and conveniences of life, you are dependent on Northern manufacturers and mechanics.

Hence multitudes will be without regular and profitable employment, and be condemned to poverty and numberless privations.

The slaveholders form a powerful landed aristocracy, banded together for the preservation of their own privileges, and ever endeavoring, for obvious reasons, to identify their private interests with the public welfare.