Lewis Tappan: “But we have some official confessions, which give a still more deplorable account of Southern ignorance.”

You have lamentable experience, that such is not the case where slaveholders bear rule.

There is not a State or Territory in the Union in which you, fellow-citizens, have not an overwhelming majority over the slaveholders; and the majority is probably the greatest in those in which the slaves are the most numerous, because in…

We know that this result is so startling and unexpected, that you will scarcely credit the testimony of figures themselves.

We ask your attention to the injuries inflicted upon you and your children, by an institution which lives by your sufferance, and will die at your mandate.