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But perhaps the most insolent attempt yet made to pervert the Federal Constitution to the support of slavery, was the expedient devised in Alabama to muzzle the Northern press.
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan criticizes a specific attempt in Alabama to suppress anti-slavery sentiment through manipulation of the Constitution.
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Up--quit yourselves like men: and may Almighty God direct and bless your efforts!
In the place of your present contempt, and degradation, and misery, honor, and wealth, and happiness court your acceptance.
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?
Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.