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One of the most inestimable of constitutional privileges is TRIAL BY JURY; and this, as we have seen, is trampled under foot with impunity, at the mandate of the slaveholders.
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan emphasizes the fundamental right to a trial by jury, which he argues is being violated in the context of slavery.
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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.
Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?
In the place of your present contempt, and degradation, and misery, honor, and wealth, and happiness court your acceptance.
Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.