Cydnor Tompkins: “I say that slavery is but the creation of some local enactment, and that no property can exist in a human being, unless…”

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.

Yet the whole power of this Government is devoted to that one object; its entire strength concentrated in one spasmodic effort to extend slavery.

I have endeavored to show what slavery is, what it has done, and what it intends to do.

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.