Lewis Tappan: “And now we ask you, why this downward course?”

The clog that has stayed the march of her people, the incubus that has weighed down her enterprise, strangled her commerce, kept sealed her exhaustless fountains of mineral wealth, and paralyzed her arts, manufactures and improvement, is…

Once establish a FREE PRESS, and the fate of slavery is sealed.

We might as well talk of poor men owning herds of cattle and studs of horses, as gangs of negroes.

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!