And now, fellow-citizens, do these men, with all their profanity and vulgarity, breathing out threatenings and slaughter, represent the feelings, and manners, and morals of the slaveholding community?
Tappan critiques the violent rhetoric of slaveholders and questions whether it reflects the true morals of the slaveholding community.
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You will be cheered by the approbation of your own consciences, and by the plaudits of mankind.
Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.
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.