Lewis Tappan: “Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.”

By abolishing slavery you will become the architects of your own fortune, and of your country's greatness.

Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?

Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.

Up--quit yourselves like men: and may Almighty God direct and bless your efforts!