Listen to the confessions of the slaveholders with regard to their happy dependents; the men who are so contented under the patriarchal system, and whose condition might well excite the envy of northern laborers, "the great democratic rabble.
Tappan sarcastically addresses the claims of slaveholders about the supposed happiness of enslaved people.
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Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.
In the place of your present contempt, and degradation, and misery, honor, and wealth, and happiness court your acceptance.
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.
You will be cheered by the approbation of your own consciences, and by the plaudits of mankind.