Lewis Tappan: “But we have some official confessions, which give a still more deplorable account of Southern ignorance.”

Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.

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?

You will be cheered by the approbation of your own consciences, and by the plaudits of mankind.