Lewis Tappan: “Hence the insane efforts constantly made to expurgate the literature…”

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Hence the insane efforts constantly made to expurgate the literature of the world of all recognition of the rights of black men.

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Lewis Tappan

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This quote reflects the extreme lengths to which slaveholders go to suppress acknowledgment of black rights.

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Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.

He is terrified by the echo of his own threats, and the very proposal to dissolve the Union and leave him to his fate, throws him into paroxysms.

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?

Lewis Tappan: “Hence the insane efforts constantly made to expurgate the literature of the world of all recognition of the rights of…”