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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Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.
Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.
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?
By abolishing slavery you will become the architects of your own fortune, and of your country's greatness.