Let not, we beseech you, the freedom of the slave proceed from the armed invader of your soil, nor from his own torch and dagger--but from your peaceful and constitutional interference in his behalf.
Tappan urges for a peaceful approach to emancipation rather than relying on violence or invasion.
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Hence the insane efforts constantly made to expurgate the literature of the world of all recognition of the rights of black men.
Statesmen may differ about policy, or the means to be employed in the promotion of the public good, but surely they ought to be agreed as to what prosperity means.
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.
Education elevates the inferior classes of society, teaches them their rights, and points out the means of enforcing them.