Lewis Tappan: “So far as the MERE LABORER has the pride, the knowledge, or the aspiration of a freeman, he is unfitted for his…”

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?

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

You will be cheered by the approbation of your own consciences, and by the plaudits of mankind.

Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.