The legislature, however, forthwith passed a law, offering a bribe of $5000 to any person who would arrest and bring to trial and conviction, in Georgia, the editor and publisher of the Boston paper.
Tappan describes a law passed by the Georgia legislature that incentivizes the capture of abolitionist editors, illustrating the lengths to which pro-slavery forces would go.
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Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.
Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?
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?