Lewis Tappan: “Without your co-operation, the slaveholders, much as they despise you, are powerless.”

The influence of slavery on population is strikingly illustrated by a comparison between Kentucky and Ohio.

It has been the policy of the slaveholders to keep entirely out of sight their own numerical inferiority, and to speak and act as if their interests were those of the whole community.

You are moreover aware that the great capitalists of the South have their wealth chiefly invested in plantations and slaves, and not as with us in commerce and manufactures.

But what a commentary on slavery and slaveholders is afforded by the gross ignorance prevailing in the old States of South Carolina, Virginia, and North Carolina!