Lewis Tappan: “Up--quit yourselves like men: and may Almighty God direct and bless your efforts!”

Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.

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?

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

You will be cheered by the approbation of your own consciences, and by the plaudits of mankind.