Let us then inquire, whether the inferior and unhappy condition of the slave States can indeed be ascribed to any natural disadvantage under which they are laboring, or to any partial or unjust legislation by the Federal Government?
Tappan questions whether the difficulties faced by slave states are due to natural disadvantages or unjust legislation.
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In the place of your present contempt, and degradation, and misery, honor, and wealth, and happiness court your acceptance.
If you admit the greatest happiness of the greatest number to be the true test of national prosperity, then, beyond all controversy, the British West Indies are now infinitely more prosperous than at any previous period of their history.
You will be cheered by the approbation of your own consciences, and by the plaudits of mankind.
Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.