Lewis Tappan: “Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.”

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

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.

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.