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Once establish a FREE PRESS, and the fate of slavery is sealed.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “Once establish a FREE PRESS, and the fate of slavery is sealed.”
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He argues that establishing a free press is crucial to ending slavery.
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In the place of your present contempt, and degradation, and misery, honor, and wealth, and happiness court your acceptance.
Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.
Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?
Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.