If the postmaster must select, under a heavy penalty, for a public bonfire, all papers bearing on slavery, why may he not be hereafter required to select, for the same fate, all papers hostile to Popery?
Tappan warns that if postmasters can be forced to burn anti-slavery papers, similar actions could target other dissenting views.
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Up--quit yourselves like men: and may Almighty God direct and bless your efforts!
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.
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