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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You will be cheered by the approbation of your own consciences, and by the plaudits of mankind.
He is terrified by the echo of his own threats, and the very proposal to dissolve the Union and leave him to his fate, throws him into paroxysms.
Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?
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?