If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.
Lewis TappanThese meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.
Lewis TappanOne of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics
Lewis Tappan