There are, no doubt, many good and humane men in slave States, who deprecate these wrongs; but they dare not utter a word--every mouth must be stopped, every lip must be sealed, every voice must be hushed, all must be silent as the grave--the most inexorable despotism reigns supreme.
Tompkins acknowledges the existence of humane individuals in slave states who are silenced by oppression.
Share
More from Cydnor Tompkins
The great pursuits by which twenty-five million people live, are not considered worthy the attention of this Democratic party; while one hundred thousand aristocrats require its entire services.
Before you complain of the free States, arrest and punish the scoundrels who so cruelly treated the Irishman at Columbia, South Carolina, for no offence but saying that slavery was detrimental to free labor.
Punish the thousands of others who have committed acts of violence against free-State men, and are yet unwhipped of justice.
Men who commit acts declared by the whole civilized world to be piracy, you permit to escape, while you say you will hang the man who circulates Helper's book.
Other voices in this conversation
