And now we ask you, fellow-citizens, if all these declarations and confessions be true--and who can doubt it--what must be your inevitable condition, should your soil be invaded by a foreign foe, bearing the standard of EMANCIPATION?
Tappan warns Southern citizens about the dangers of foreign invasion under the banner of emancipation.
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You will be cheered by the approbation of your own consciences, and by the plaudits of mankind.
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.