Lewis Tappan: “Hence the shocking severity with which, in all slave countries, attempts to shake off an unrighteous yoke are punished.”

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

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

Up--quit yourselves like men: and may Almighty God direct and bless your efforts!

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?