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They claim to take laws by which four million negroes are reduced to the condition of brutes.
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Tompkins condemns the laws that dehumanize enslaved individuals, highlighting the moral implications of such claims.
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The columns of the Daily Globe teemed with fierce and fiery denunciations of all who would not bow to the behests of pro-slavery power.
Instead of supporting freedom, does it not advocate slavery and oppression?
Upon the decease of my wife, it is my desire that the slaves whom I hold in my own right should receive their freedom.
Calumny and vituperation held high carnival in the legislative halls of this great nation.
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