Here we have a record of no less than TEN men, five black and five white, probably all innocent of the crime alleged against them, deliberately and publicly put to death by the slaveholders, without the shadow of legal authority.
Tappan condemns the execution of ten men, emphasizing the lack of legal authority in their deaths.
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Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.
Do you ask that your children may be rescued from the ignorance and irreligion to which they are now doomed, and that avenues may be opened for you and for them to honest and profitable employment?
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.