On the record
You well know how incessantly the work of human slaughter is going on among you: and no reader of your public journals can be ignorant of the frequent occurrence of your deadly street fights.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “You well know how incessantly the work of human slaughter is going on among you: and no reader of your public journals…”
Editor's note · Context
Tappan points out the ongoing violence in Southern communities, urging awareness among the public about the brutality occurring around them.
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Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.
Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.
Up--quit yourselves like men: and may Almighty God direct and bless your efforts!
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?