I know it is claimed, by men in the slave States, that slavery is necessary to the highest development of human society; but I think the experience of members of Congress is, that slavery does not always produce this beneficial result.
Tompkins challenges the belief that slavery is essential for societal development, based on Congressional experiences.
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Take from place and power the men whose hands and faces are reeking and smoking with the blood of our people in Kansas, and put them to death.
Before you complain of us, go home and seize and hang the pirates who are hovering around your shores, engaged in the slave trade.
The agricultural, the manufacturing, the great commercial interests of this country, are entirely ignored, neglected, and forgotten, that the interests of one hundred thousand slaveholders may be advanced.
Yet the whole power of this Government is devoted to that one object; its entire strength concentrated in one spasmodic effort to extend slavery.
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