Lewis Tappan: “Truly indeed have the slaveholders rendered the Constitution a blurred, obliterated, and tattered parchment.”

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

By abolishing slavery you will become the architects of your own fortune, and of your country's greatness.

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

If you admit the greatest happiness of the greatest number to be the true test of national prosperity, then, beyond all controversy, the British West Indies are now infinitely more prosperous than at any previous period of their history.