Lewis Tappan: “Surely, fellow-citizens, you will not accuse us of slander, when we…”

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Surely, fellow-citizens, you will not accuse us of slander, when we say that the slaveholders have abolished among you the liberty of the press.

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Lewis Tappan

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Tappan asserts that slaveholders have effectively suppressed freedom of the press in the South.

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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?

In the place of your present contempt, and degradation, and misery, honor, and wealth, and happiness court your acceptance.

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

Up--quit yourselves like men: and may Almighty God direct and bless your efforts!

Lewis Tappan: “Surely, fellow-citizens, you will not accuse us of slander, when we say that the slaveholders have abolished among you…”