Lewis Tappan: “We have called your attention to the practical influence of slavery on various points deeply affecting your prosperity…”

By abolishing slavery you will become the architects of your own fortune, and of your country's greatness.

The institution which oppresses you is suffering from the decrepitude of age, and is the scorn and loathing of the world.

Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.

Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?