The readiness with which Southern Governors prefer the most false and audacious claims, under color of Constitutional authority, exhibits a state of society in which truth and honor are but little respected.
Tappan comments on the lack of respect for truth and honor in Southern society as reflected in their governance.
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Out of the slave region, patriots and philanthropists, and Christians of every name and sect abhor and execrate it.
In the place of your present contempt, and degradation, and misery, honor, and wealth, and happiness court your acceptance.
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.
Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.