God knows their perils are real, and not imaginary: and who can question, that with a hostile British army in the heart of Virginia or Alabama, the whole slave region would presently become one vast scene of horror and desolation?
Tappan warns of the real dangers faced by slaveholders if a hostile army were to invade the South.
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We know that this result is so startling and unexpected, that you will scarcely credit the testimony of figures themselves.