On the record
Let then your first demand be for LIBERTY OF SPEECH.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “Let then your first demand be for LIBERTY OF SPEECH.”
Editor's note · Context
Tappan calls for the demand of free speech as a fundamental right in the fight against slavery.
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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?
Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.
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.
You will be cheered by the approbation of your own consciences, and by the plaudits of mankind.