Cydnor Tompkins: “I charge them as direct, positive aggressions, on the rights of the free people of the North.”

Punish the thousands of others who have committed acts of violence against free-State men, and are yet unwhipped of justice.

Take from place and power the men whose hands and faces are reeking and smoking with the blood of our people in Kansas, and put them to death.

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.

I have also endeavored to show what are the aims and objects of the Republican party; and if they cannot be tolerated--if such principles cannot be sustained by the people of any section of this country--it is the misfortune of that people.