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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.
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Lewis Tappan
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He describes the institution of slavery as outdated and despised by the world.
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In the place of your present contempt, and degradation, and misery, honor, and wealth, and happiness court your acceptance.
Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.
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.
Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.