Lewis Tappan: “This is the second negro who has been thus put to death, without judge…”

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This is the second negro who has been thus put to death, without judge or jury in this country.

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Lewis Tappan

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Tappan remarks on the alarming frequency of extrajudicial killings of Black individuals, underscoring the lawlessness of such acts.

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

The institution which oppresses you is suffering from the decrepitude of age, and is the scorn and loathing of the world.

Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.

You will be cheered by the approbation of your own consciences, and by the plaudits of mankind.

Lewis Tappan: “This is the second negro who has been thus put to death, without judge or jury in this country.”