You well know that slaveholders, in answer to the abolitionists, are wont to boast of the fidelity and attachment of their slaves; and you also well know, that among themselves they freely avow their dread of these same faithful and attached slaves, and are fertile in expedients to guard against their vengeance.
Tappan points out the contradiction in slaveholders' claims of loyalty from slaves while fearing their potential for revolt.
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Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?
Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.
If you admit the greatest happiness of the greatest number to be the true test of national prosperity, then, beyond all controversy, the British West Indies are now infinitely more prosperous than at any previous period of their history.
In the place of your present contempt, and degradation, and misery, honor, and wealth, and happiness court your acceptance.