But a consciousness, with all their stupidity, that a ten-fold force, superior in discipline, if not in barbarity, would gather from the four corners of the United States, and slaughter them, keeps them in subjection.
Tappan discusses the psychological factors that keep enslaved people submissive despite their potential for rebellion.
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Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.
The institution which oppresses you is suffering from the decrepitude of age, and is the scorn and loathing of the world.
Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.
Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?