Alas! their language has been re-echoed again and again by public meetings in the slave States; and we proceed to lay before you overwhelming proof that in the expression of their murderous feelings towards the abolitionists, they have faithfully represented the sentiments of their constituents.
Tappan warns that the violent sentiments expressed by slaveholders are widely shared among their constituents, indicating a dangerous societal norm.
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If we are permitted to apply this rule in testing the moral condition of the South, the result will not be favorable.
We surely need not detain you with farther details on this head, to convince you what an enormous sacrifice of happiness and prosperity you are offering on the altar of slavery.
You have lamentable experience, that such is not the case where slaveholders bear rule.
But what a commentary on slavery and slaveholders is afforded by the gross ignorance prevailing in the old States of South Carolina, Virginia, and North Carolina!