This, it will be noticed, is a threat addressed, not to the Northern abolitionists, but to you, fellow-citizens, to the great majority of the white inhabitants of the South; and you are warned not to express an opinion offensive to your aristocracy.
Tappan warns Southern citizens against expressing dissenting opinions due to threats from the elite.
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