Lewis Tappan: “Truly indeed have the slaveholders rendered the Constitution a blurred, obliterated, and tattered parchment.”

The power of the slaveholders, as we have already showed you, depends on the acquiescence of the major part of the white inhabitants in their domination.

When an infant will bring one hundred, and a man from four hundred to a thousand dollars in the market, slaves are not commodities to be found in the cabins of the poor.

Has it ever happened that the mass of any people were rich enough to keep, for their own convenience, such expensive laborers--as southern slaves?

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