On the record
We ask your attention to the injuries inflicted upon you and your children, by an institution which lives by your sufferance, and will die at your mandate.
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan addresses the moral implications of slavery and its impact on non-slaveholders in the South.
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By abolishing slavery you will become the architects of your own fortune, and of your country's greatness.
Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.
You will be cheered by the approbation of your own consciences, and by the plaudits of mankind.
The institution which oppresses you is suffering from the decrepitude of age, and is the scorn and loathing of the world.