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Have we not reason to suspect that too many of our countrymen have ceased to be virtuous?
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Tompkins expresses concern about the moral integrity of his fellow citizens in relation to slavery.
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When the entire abolition of slavery takes place, it will be an event which must be most pleasing to every generous mind, and to every friend of human nature.
Upon the decease of my wife, it is my desire that the slaves whom I hold in my own right should receive their freedom.
Is not a great party now engaged in the ungrateful task of forging chains for a large portion of the people of this country?
Chairman, that God's sun does not shine upon a nobler, prouder, more prosperous, and elevated class of people, than the non-slaveholders of the South.
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