Surely, surely, if the South be wanting in every element of prosperity--if ignorance, barbarity and poverty be her characteristics, it is not because she has not exercised her due influence in the general government, or received her share of its honors and emoluments.
Tappan argues that the South's lack of prosperity is not due to a lack of political influence or government support, but rather deeper issues.
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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 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?
Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.
Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.