Lewis Tappan: “Truly indeed have the slaveholders rendered the Constitution a…”

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Truly indeed have the slaveholders rendered the Constitution a blurred, obliterated, and tattered parchment.

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Lewis Tappan

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Tappan criticizes the way slaveholders have distorted the Constitution to justify slavery.

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Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.

Do you pant for liberty and equality, more substantial than such as is now found only in your obliterated and tattered bills of right?

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!

Lewis Tappan: “Truly indeed have the slaveholders rendered the Constitution a blurred, obliterated, and tattered parchment.”