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Ignorance, vice, idleness, lawless violence, dread of insurrection, anarchy, and a haughty and vindictive aristocracy will all combine with augmented energy in crushing you to the earth.
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Lewis Tappan
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Editor's note · Context
Tappan lists the societal ills that will intensify as a result of the changes in the South, painting a grim picture of the future.
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Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.
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?
You will be cheered by the approbation of your own consciences, and by the plaudits of mankind.
The institution which oppresses you is suffering from the decrepitude of age, and is the scorn and loathing of the world.