Lewis Tappan: “You will be cheered by the approbation of your own consciences, and by the plaudits of mankind.”

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

Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.

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.

Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?