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Calumny and vituperation held high carnival in the legislative halls of this great nation.
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gutenberg.orgCydnor Tompkins: “Calumny and vituperation held high carnival in the legislative halls of this great nation.”
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Tompkins highlights the rampant slander and vitriol present in legislative discussions during his time.
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We will not follow your example; we will not pass laws in plain and palpable violation of your rights, and in palpable violation of the Constitution, and then drive out, by threats or violence, any man who may come into the State to test…
Before you complain of us, go home and seize and hang the pirates who are hovering around your shores, engaged in the slave trade.
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.
But if you think that Constitution violated, you have your remedy.
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