Lewis Tappan: “Or the People--for they will be THE PEOPLE--may resolve to be free…”

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Or the People--for they will be THE PEOPLE--may resolve to be free, and you and all you hold dear may be sacrificed in the contest.

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Lewis Tappan

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Tappan suggests that the people themselves must choose to be free, or risk losing everything in the struggle.

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In the place of your present contempt, and degradation, and misery, honor, and wealth, and happiness court your acceptance.

Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.

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