Lewis Tappan: “God forbid we should deny that many of the community to which we refer, utterly abhor the atrocities we are about to…”

It is so commonly taken for granted, that every white man at the South is a slaveholder, that many will doubtingly inquire, where are these non-slaveholding citizens to be found?

We know that this result is so startling and unexpected, that you will scarcely credit the testimony of figures themselves.

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.

In a community so unenlightened as yours, it is a matter of course, that the arts and sciences must languish, and the industry and enterprise of the country be oppressed by a general torpor.