Lewis Tappan: “Thus you perceive how unequal is the race in which you are contending.”

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

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

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

But we have some official confessions, which give a still more deplorable account of Southern ignorance.