It rests with you to relieve your country of its most dangerous enemy, to render it invulnerable to foreign assaults, and to dissipate that fearful anticipation of wrath and tribulation, which now broods over and oppresses the mind of every white who resides in a slave country.
Tappan urges the South to eliminate its most dangerous enemy, which he identifies as the institution of slavery itself.
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Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.
Up--quit yourselves like men: and may Almighty God direct and bless your efforts!
Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?
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?