We have thus given you no less than six instances of human beings publicly burned alive in four slave States, and in each case with entire impunity to the miscreants engaged in the horrible murder.
Tappan provides evidence of multiple instances of public burnings, emphasizing the impunity enjoyed by perpetrators in slave states.
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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.
Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.
Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.