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The lust of power and dominion deadens their consciences; a million bales of cotton can blind their eyes alike to the flames of perdition and the glories of Paradise.
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Tompkins warns that the pursuit of power and wealth can corrupt moral judgment regarding slavery.
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They would be scourged, driven by violence from the State, and might be considered fortunate should they escape with their lives.
It is our privilege, it is our duty, to repel those assaults, that the world may know that when the advanced guard of freedom is attacked, "our feet shall be always in the arena, and our shields shall hang always in the lists.
I repeat again, that it would rejoice my very soul that every one of my fellow beings were emancipated.
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it.
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