Be assured, your bullies are timid bullies; not that they are wanting in individual courage, but because they are aware that their authority rests, not on their physical strength, but on your habits of deference and obedience.
Tappan describes the cowardice of bullies who rely on the deference of others rather than their own strength.
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In the place of your present contempt, and degradation, and misery, honor, and wealth, and happiness court your acceptance.
Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.
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.