Lewis Tappan: “If the victims were innocent, no necessity required their murder.”

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

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

By abolishing slavery you will become the architects of your own fortune, and of your country's greatness.

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.