Lewis Tappan: “Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is…”

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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?

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Lewis Tappan

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He questions whether the audience desires true liberty and equality beyond mere words.

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

Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.

He is terrified by the echo of his own threats, and the very proposal to dissolve the Union and leave him to his fate, throws him into paroxysms.

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

Lewis Tappan: “Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered…”