Lewis Tappan: “So the way to prevent plundering mobs, is to enslave the poor!”

Hence multitudes will be without regular and profitable employment, and be condemned to poverty and numberless privations.

It is also a matter of notoriety, that the price of slaves has been and still is such as to confine their possession almost exclusively to the rich.

Education elevates the inferior classes of society, teaches them their rights, and points out the means of enforcing them.

There is not a State or Territory in the Union in which you, fellow-citizens, have not an overwhelming majority over the slaveholders; and the majority is probably the greatest in those in which the slaves are the most numerous, because in…