Lewis Tappan: “Let us now inquire more particularly how far slavery is indeed a stable basis, on which free institutions may securely…”

In the place of your present contempt, and degradation, and misery, honor, and wealth, and happiness court your acceptance.

If you admit the greatest happiness of the greatest number to be the true test of national prosperity, then, beyond all controversy, the British West Indies are now infinitely more prosperous than at any previous period of their history.

Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.

You will be cheered by the approbation of your own consciences, and by the plaudits of mankind.