Lewis Tappan: “Then, indeed, emancipation will be given, but the gift may be bathed in the blood of yourselves and of your children.”

Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.

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?

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.

In the place of your present contempt, and degradation, and misery, honor, and wealth, and happiness court your acceptance.