There is not a State or Territory in the Union in which you, fellow-citizens, have not an overwhelming majority over the slaveholders; and the majority is probably the greatest in those in which the slaves are the most numerous, because in such they are chiefly concentrated on large plantations.
Tappan asserts that non-slaveholders constitute a majority in every state, challenging the narrative that slaveholders represent the interests of the entire community.
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Up--quit yourselves like men: and may Almighty God direct and bless your efforts!
Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.
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?