Heretofore the invaders of our soil were themselves interested in slave property: now they would be zealous emancipationists, and they would be accompanied by the most terrific vision which could meet the eye of a slaveholder, regiments of black troops, fully equipped and disciplined.
Tappan discusses the shift in the nature of invaders, suggesting that they would be motivated by emancipation and supported by freed slaves.
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The institution which oppresses you is suffering from the decrepitude of age, and is the scorn and loathing of the world.
In the place of your present contempt, and degradation, and misery, honor, and wealth, and happiness court your acceptance.
Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.
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.