Lewis Tappan

We indulge in no idle declamation, but speak the words of truth and soberness.

This, it will be noticed, is a threat addressed, not to the Northern abolitionists, but to you, fellow-citizens, to the great majority of the white inhabitants of the South; and you are warned not to express an opinion offensive to your…

Abolition editors in slave States will not dare to avow their opinions.

Here, again, is a threat directed against any of you, who may happen to have the command of types and printer's ink.

Now, we ask what must be the state of society, where the public journals thus justify and stimulate the public thirst for blood?

The very idea of trial is scouted, and the mob, or rather the slaveholders themselves, are acknowledged to be the arbiters of life and death.

We will present for your consideration a series of atrocities, perpetrated, not by individuals in secret, but in open day by the slaveholding populace.

This awful and horrible punishment has been banished, by the progress of civilization, from the whole of Christendom, with the single exception of the American Slave States.

It is also deserving of remark, that the two journals which have made this atrocious threat were published, not among the rude borderers of our frontier settlements, but in the populous cities of Charleston and New-Orleans, the very…

This is the second negro who has been thus put to death, without judge or jury in this country.

Thus we see that burning negroes alive is treated as a spectacle, and strangers are invited to witness it.

If we are permitted to apply this rule in testing the moral condition of the South, the result will not be favorable.