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Remember the assertion of the editor of the Missouri Argus: "Abolition editors in the slave States will not dare to avow their opinions: it would be INSTANT DEATH to them.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “Remember the assertion of the editor of the Missouri Argus: "Abolition editors in the slave States will not dare to avow…”
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Tappan quotes an editor to illustrate the extreme dangers faced by abolitionist writers in slave states.
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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.
Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.
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?