Lewis Tappan: “Think you your planting nobility will ever grant freedom to their serfs, from sentiments of piety or patriotism?”

It, is however, worthy of remark, that its cultivation affords a livelihood to only a small proportion of the free inhabitants; and scarcely to any of those we are now addressing.

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

You have lamentable experience, that such is not the case where slaveholders bear rule.

You are told, much of the wealth is invested in negroes--yet it obviously is a wealth that impoverishes; and no stronger evidence of the truth of this assertion is needed, than the comparative price of land in the free and slave States.