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God forbid we should deny that many of the community to which we refer, utterly abhor the atrocities we are about to detail.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “God forbid we should deny that many of the community to which we refer, utterly abhor the atrocities we are about to…”
Editor's note · Context
Tappan recognizes that not all members of the community support the atrocities he describes, showing a nuanced understanding of public sentiment.
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The institution which oppresses you is suffering from the decrepitude of age, and is the scorn and loathing of the world.
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?
Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?
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.