You all know and daily witness the blighting influence of the curse which overspreads your land; and believe us, that just in proportion as your courage rises, will the arrogance of your oppressors sink.
Tappan highlights the detrimental effects of slavery on Southern society and the potential for change through courage.
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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.
Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.
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.
Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.