Cydnor Tompkins: “You may go, and take your slaves with you, if you have a mind to run the risk; I say you shall not take your slave laws…”

Before you complain of us, go home and seize and hang the pirates who are hovering around your shores, engaged in the slave trade.

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.

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.

I have also endeavored to show what are the aims and objects of the Republican party; and if they cannot be tolerated--if such principles cannot be sustained by the people of any section of this country--it is the misfortune of that people.