Cydnor Tompkins: “I say it would be an act of injustice to deny one man any right in the Territory that another man has, and would be just…”

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.

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.

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.