Lewis Tappan: “Without your co-operation, the slaveholders, much as they despise you, are powerless.”

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

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

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 pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?