Its cloven hoof has ascended the pulpits of the churches--professors of colleges teach it as a lesson of morals--ministers of the Gospel seek and profess to find sanctions for it in the Word of God.
Tappan condemns the infiltration of pro-slavery ideology into educational and religious institutions, indicating a moral crisis.
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The very advertisements in your newspapers show that, for a vast proportion of the comforts and conveniences of life, you are dependent on Northern manufacturers and mechanics.
The influence of slavery on population is strikingly illustrated by a comparison between Kentucky and Ohio.
It has been the policy of the slaveholders to keep entirely out of sight their own numerical inferiority, and to speak and act as if their interests were those of the whole community.
If we turn to the new States, we find that slavery and freedom have the same influence on population as in the old.