Lewis Tappan: “And what, fellow-citizens, will be the condition of such of you as shall then remain in the slave States?”

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.

In 1837, Governor Clarke, in his message to the Kentucky Legislature, remarked, "By the computation of those most familiar with the subject, ONE THIRD OF THE ADULT POPULATION OF THE STATE ARE UNABLE TO WRITE THEIR NAMES.

Slavery moreover is monopolizing in its tendency, and leads to the accumulation of property in few hands.

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