- A slave supporter created this document.
- The intended reader is fellow slave owners.
- They ask that readers attend the meeting to discuss the issue of abolitionists.
- To unite, put down, and silence abolitionists.
- An abolitionist would react with horror and dispose of the document.
- A pro-slavery individual would attend the meeting to support his fellow slave owners.
- This would create tensions between the two groups, as hostilities and irritations would be formed as a result of the two disagreeing sides.