And think you that men, thus in awe of their own dependents, shuddering at a musket in the hands of a black, and with a population of two millions and a half of these dreaded slaves, will expose themselves to the tremendous consequences of a union between their domestic and foreign enemies?
Tappan reflects on the fears of slaveholders regarding potential uprisings and the consequences of a united enemy.
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Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.
You will be cheered by the approbation of your own consciences, and by the plaudits of mankind.
Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?
Do you ask that your children may be rescued from the ignorance and irreligion to which they are now doomed, and that avenues may be opened for you and for them to honest and profitable employment?