You have already seen that the pro-slavery press has recommended the murder of such northern abolitionists as may be caught in the South; we now ask your attention to the efforts made by the slaveholders to get prominent abolitionists into their power.
Tappan warns of the dangers posed to abolitionists in the South, highlighting the violent rhetoric of the pro-slavery press.
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