Not only is this espionage exercised over the mail, but measures are taken to keep the community in ignorance of what is passing abroad in relation to slavery, and what opinions are elsewhere held respecting it.
Tappan describes how the mail system is used to suppress information about slavery, keeping the public uninformed.
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Up--quit yourselves like men: and may Almighty God direct and bless your efforts!
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?
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?